These are some really intriguing movies (Netflix, etc.) – they’re finally talking about data, data use, data ownership, privacy, customization (sort of) and all sorts of things that have significant implications on our career ethics and responsibilities. When you watch these, they can quickly lead to a rabbit hole of TED talks, blog posts and more. Probably result in some […]
Tag: privacy
Interesting: Data Bread Lines
In reading through a post about a book that’s out about managing and living with data, there were some very interesting observations outlined. Things that are pretty apparent as you work through systems at companies with many different sources of information and raw data. The post was a book excerpt, from “Winning With Data” (Wiley). If you think about it, […]
Storage Space Costs are Skyrocketing…
At a time when you can have nearly unlimited storage in the cloud, when you can purchase disk space and storage options for pennies on the dollar of what it used to cost, you may consider that the statement that the costs are skyrocketing is, well, silly. The acquisition costs are indeed lower. But the risks and management and administrative […]
Data Archives, Privacy and Data Protection (and the GDPR)
Several posts of late have had to do with data privacy, protecting information, etc., but from the standpoint of what does this mean for our systems and our work with data… I think the implications are critical planning points for systems going forward. For me at least, when I’ve traditional built systems, once the data is acquired, it’s kept. We […]
Privacy and Data Protection is a Moving Target
It seems that exactly WHAT makes up privacy and what data is ok to use, what is not ok to use, is an incredibly fast-moving target. I remember when Netflix was initially ramping up their streaming services – back in the early days of original content for them. They had just released (I think) season 2 of House of Cards […]