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Look Beyond TikTok: Massive Data Collection Is the Real Risk

Data Breach Today

All Social Media Apps Collect Information on a Scale That Facilitates Surveillance There's much national security ado about how much user data gets collected by the Chinese-owned, wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok.

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Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky apps on government-issued mobile devices

Security Affairs

Canada banned the Chinese messaging app WeChat and Kaspersky antivirus on government mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The Government of Canada announced a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky applications on government-issued mobile devices due to privacy and security risks.

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The What & Why of Data Governance

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Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined. Data governance has no standard definition.

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Digital Transformation in Municipal Government: The Hidden Force Powering Smart Cities

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When you think of real-time, data-driven experiences and modern applications to accomplish tasks faster and easier, your local town or city government probably doesn’t come to mind. But municipal government is starting to embrace digital transformation and therefore data governance.

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The importance of governance: What we’re learning from AI advances in 2022

IBM Big Data Hub

At the same time, governments around the world are continuously evaluating and implementing new AI guidelines and AI regulation frameworks. We think that businesses have an opportunity to act now to put guardrails in place internally to govern how AI is developed and deployed.

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Krebs on Security

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

The increase in malicious activity detected by Quad9 is the latest chapter in an ongoing series of cyberattacks against Ukrainian government and civilian systems since the outset of the war in the last week of February. But the data collected by Quad9 suggest that a great deal of low-level cyberattacks targeting Ukrainians remain ongoing.

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