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Data and analytics articles

Profiles, features and insights on the key trends, leaders, emerging stars and best practices within data, analytics and data science, originated by DataIQ and our partners

DQM GRC: How to spot if your data dam has burst

23 Oct 2019by David Reed

High profile data breaches have put CISOs under the spotlight and emphasised the limitations of what conventional cyber-security can achieve. Alongside technology to prevent unauthorised access, you also need to be tracking where your data is ending up, as DQM GRC’s Peter Galdies explained to DataIQ.

Privacy and innovation - lessons learnt from the FCA TechSprint

17 Oct 2019by Simon McDougall

The Financial Conduct Authority’s TechSprint brought together teams from all over the world to focus on how privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) can help financial institutions to share data. Simon McDougall of the ICO, who helped to judge the entries, feeds back on what he learned.

Data governance Data regulation Technology

Call for projects supporting open engineering data

16 Oct 2019by Toni Sekinah

A new stimulus fund of £150,000 is available to eligible projects that will increase access to data and drive innovation in the engineering sector. The fund has been announced alongside the publication of a manifesto and report aimed at getting companies and organisations in the engineering sector to publish, use and share data. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data governance Technology

Should AI systems be given MOTs to put the brakes on hackers?

11 Oct 2019by Toni Sekinah

The current methods of governing artificial intelligence and autonomous systems are not sufficient to protect our connected devices from having their vulnerabilities exploited by hackers. Dr Bertie Müller points out some of the flaws in the systems that some of us use on a daily basis, and what might be a better way to mitigate them.

Data governance Data regulation Data science Organisation and culture

In data we trust. Or do we?

04 Sep 2019by Caroline Worboys

Trust in data not only increases your level of compliance, it can enhance the accuracy of the decisions you make. But only if you really believe the data you are presented with. Caroline Worboys of Outra explains why confidence scores are the key tool for achieving this.

Analytics and insight Data governance Data management

Culture of trust leads Co-op to data privacy award win

02 Sep 2019by Toni Sekinah

The Co-op data team took home the Best Data Ethics and Privacy Programme at the DataIQ Awards. Claire Hadfield of the Co-op explains how they engendered a culture of trust and what the win means for her and her team.

Data governance Organisation and culture

Many Equifax data breach victims won't see a pretty penny

14 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

Consumer data should be worth more than $125 a pop. However, for credit referencing Equifax, restitution has a low price and customers have little value.

Data governance Data regulation Organisation and culture

When a red light is a red line for privacy

05 Aug 2019by Toni Sekinah

I took an unauthorised photo in a foreign country and it led me to think about how attitudes to privacy differ across nations, professions, time and location. As data subjects and internet users, we should all be able to explicitly state what our red lines are when it comes to our data and our privacy.

Data governance Data regulation

GDPR - no more waiting for the hammer to fall

18 Jul 2019by David Reed

For chief data officers who spent several years working hard on GDPR, the fines levied on BA and Marriott must feel disappointing. But it is CIOs and CISOs who have let those companies down, not CDOs, argues David Reed.

Data governance

Things I want to know in the wake of this week’s ICO mega fines

12 Jul 2019by Toni Sekinah

The ICO sent shockwaves through the data world with two gigantic fines issued to two large enterprises in two days. Though this move will probably be welcomed by the public, it does throw up a lot of questions.

Data governance Data regulation

Market Insight

Customer data platforms: Integrating data, transforming enterprisesSponsored by Tealium

This report presents the findings from a survey across 101 companies to identify their goals for digital transformation and data integration, together with the ...

ISO 27701: Setting a New Standard for PrivacySponsored by DQM GRC

What does ISO 27701 mean for your organisation? Currently, there is no “official” GDPR certification or seal. ISO 27701 is the closest an organisation can get ...

Mind the Data GapSponsored by Royal Mail

The biggest challenge facing marketers remains the same - acquiring new customers. Alongside it, a new challenge has emerged - how to analyse data and gain ...

Privacy, Value and Ethics Report 2: Coping with the cautious consumerSponsored by DQM GRC

This research report confirms that we have now entered the calm before the storm. We expect that ongoing investigations by the ICO will not only put the ...

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