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Public sector fraud prevention - progress lies in data revolution

04 Mar 2020by Satrajit "Satty" Saha

Fraud costs the government an estimated £31 billion to £49 billion a year. To tackle thist, reforms to the government’s anti-fraud efforts are vital. Satrajit "Satty" Saha of TransUnion in the UK explains how commercial data organisations can play their part.

Analytics and insight Data governance

NEW! DataIQ Podcast - 8: Compare the Market and Hastings Direct

04 Feb 2020by David Reed

In this edition, Cathy Pendleton, senior data governance manager at Compare the Market, talks to DataIQ about how to make the protection of data an enabler of new business processes and why this is proving to be an attractive new career option in the industry. Plus diversity at Hastings Direct and KPMG.

Data governance Skills Technology

Leyre Murillo-Villa – "There is always a solution"

22 Jan 2020by David Reed

Leyre Murillo-Villar is chief data officer and data control lead at BNP Paribas. She is also a member of the Women in Data 20 in Data and Tech list. She told DataIQ about the need to close the gender gap and how data is at the heart of managing risk.

Data governance Data management Leadership

Business decisions based less on trust and more on truth

20 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

Dun & Bradstreet, a business information data company that provides business credit reports, has over 330 million business records on its Data Cloud. Andy Crisp tells Toni Sekinah about his observation having completed 20 years in at Dun & Bradstreet and what it means to ‘own’ data at the company.

Analytics and insight Business intelligence Data governance Strategy

Location data, privacy and consent

11 Dec 2019by Toni Sekinah

A panel discussion about location data, privacy and consent held at the Geovation office generated healthy debate about the rights of citizens and responsibilities of tech companies in relation to location data and privacy. ’Is privacy a privilege or a right?’ was one of the questions raised. Toni Sekinah reports.

Data governance Data regulation

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.

Data governance Data management Data regulation

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

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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. With research revealing 39.8% of organisations have still not reached a state ...

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