Why Do Businesses Need a Data (and AI) Manifesto?
Business + ManagementOpinionDataOpsPrivacyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC July 1, 2019
50 years ago, the concept of privacy meant disappearing. You built a wall around your private data, and it was pretty easy to keep that wall secure. Aside from governmental intrusion, you didn’t have to worry much about constant feeds of data streaming from your daily... Read more
Why The New Era of Big Data Requires Innovative Privacy Initiatives
ConferencesOpinionodsc eastPrivacyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC May 20, 2019
“Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both.” – Paul Ohm Privacy and data collection go together like peanut butter and jelly, but in the world of big data, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to work with anonymous data without crossing a privacy line.... Read more
Data Privacy Regulation is Coming to California. Here’s What Data Scientists Should Know
Business + ManagementGovernmentGDPRPrivacyposted by Alex Amari August 10, 2018
In June, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, marking the most significant data privacy regulation in the United States to date. The Act, codified as AB 375, won’t come into effect until January 1, 2020. But already, some... Read more
Big aggregate queries can still violate privacy
Data WranglingModelingStatisticsPrivacyposted by John Cook November 26, 2017
Suppose you want to prevent your data science team from being able to find out information on individual customers, but you do want them to be able to get overall statistics. So you implement two policies. Data scientists can only query aggregate statistics, such as counts... Read more