In support of legislation that would standardize and publish all federal spending data, a group of technology companies will make their case at a public gathering in Washington on May 16. The event, dubbed DATA Demo Day, is timed to Read More…
As social media networks have become more prevalent, so have companies’ concerns about privacy. In response, Wave Systems, a public company based in Lee, Mass., has introduced a Web service called Scrambls that allows users to control who sees their Read More…
While technology innovations continue to bring about ways to automate the collection and analysis of machine data, speakers at the GigaOm conference like Sean Gourley said leaders need to step up to define the industry’s influence on the world. Read More…
Three and a half years ago, when Kade Crockford first began working part-time at the ACLU of Massachusetts, the state’s local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, she was tasked with looking into the federal government’s surveillance activities within Read More…
Executives from Yahoo, Salesforce.com and Monster Worldwide said at an Internet Association trade group event that the global nature of online commerce calls for better alignment of different countries’ consumer data privacy policies. Read More…
The DATA Act’s passage would be an asset to companies who sell to the U.S. government, since it would enable complex data analytics by consolidating the actual dollar amounts being spent by individual agencies. It would also be a boon to public data watchdogs. Read More…
In a service aimed at retailers battling online rivals, Dynamite Data’s proprietary technology serves up pricing and inventory information from millions of online “buy” pages–giving merchants a chance to combat the dynamic of consumers visiting a physical store to check out a product and then buy it online. Read More…
Alec Foege, a contributing editor at Data Informed focusing on data privacy, is a writer, editor Read More…
When Harriet Pearson (pictured) was hired by IBM in November 2000 to be its first chief privacy officer, it was a headline-making event. Now that many data use cases are prevalent in business, the chief privacy officer ranks are growing with the largest professional group rising fast in just the past year. Read More…
Wall Street analysts are not getting much use out of expensive financial data generated by the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) platform, Columbia University researchers have found. Read More…
