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OIG: VA Workers Hid ‘Big Data’ Project Privacy, Security Risks

Data Breach Today

Report on Canceled VA Project Offers Governance Lessons for Others The Department of Veterans Affairs’ watchdog agency alleges that two VA employees “concealed” and “mispresented” the cybersecurity and privacy risks of an ambitious "big data" project that would have analyzed 22 million veterans’ health records dating back two decades.

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MY TAKE: What if Big Data and AI could be intensively focused on health and wellbeing?

The Last Watchdog

and other jurisdictions have abjectly failed over the past 20 years leveraging Big Data to innovate personalized healthcare services. Healthcare providers haven’t yet figured out how to digitalize medical records in a way that robustly preserves patient privacy and keeps patient information out of data thieves’ hands.

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No Surprise: China Blamed for 'Big Data' Hack of Equifax

Data Breach Today

Analysis: Equifax Failed on Security, But Only Governments Can Hold Each Other to Account Who's surprised Chinese military hackers allegedly hacked Equifax?

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The EU’s draft Data Governance Act: an own goal?

Data Protector

The EU’s draft Data Governance Act is designed to facilitate the greater sharing of non-Personal data within the EU. Such big data ought to provide new insights and benefit the lives of EU citizens, the EU thinking goes.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Data fuels the modern enterprise — today more than ever, businesses compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. Data Governance Attitudes Are Shifting. Data Governance Attitudes Are Shifting.

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Trying to tackle Big Data: European Union launches draft Data Act

Data Matters

Complementing the above proposals, the Data Act is aimed at giving individuals and businesses more control over their data; it regulates data sharing between business to consumer ( B2C ), business to business ( B2B ) and business to government ( B2G ). See also here for our previous blog on this legislative proposal.

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