Rise of Biometrics: The New Meaning of “BYOB”
There’s a new enterprise party in town, but the guest list is tightly guarded. The policy to get in is strictly BYOB… “Bring Your Own Body.” Now, lest we land ourselves in trouble with someone’s HR...
View ArticleExpanding Data, Expanding Issues of Governance
Working in the information governance space, it’s important to keep up with both trends and disagreements within the user community of professionals out in the field. And recently, it’s been refreshing...
View ArticlePrivacy Considerations for Analyzing Enterprise Content
My cognitive science background predisposes me to endless fascination regarding the effects of technology and privacy on human behavior. So it’s certainly an exciting – and intimidating – world to...
View ArticleThe EU: Facing a New Employee Privacy Paradox
On January 12th, the European Court of Human Rights determined that an employee’s private chats sent during their work day are accessible by the employer. The ruling, naturally, called into question...
View ArticleA Tugboat Back to “Safe Harbor”
To a casual observer, the strike-down of the US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement in October 2015 appeared to abruptly halt the winds that had driven 15 years of smooth sailing for international, data-driven...
View ArticleFinding (the Right) Information
How do records and information management professionals do it? Based on the two events that I attended recently, each from quite opposite ends of the spectrum, I feel quite sympathetic towards...
View ArticleDark Data and What Could be on the Horizon
If you go to a library or a café these days, you might spy some open laptops with a Post-it note or a piece of tape covering the built-in webcam. While many may think this is overly cautious and...
View ArticleThe Deal with Data Breaches
Data breaches are now, unfortunately, essentially inevitable for companies big and small. So when Yahoo! Announced their second hack in four months, the latest one exposing over one billion(!!!) user...
View ArticleDrowning in Data
We often think of the 21st century in terms of the vast degree of innovation and interconnectivity that has emerged, but we rarely consider the explosive growth of the very data that gave the...
View ArticleCan Privacy Survive the Era of Analytics?
In a recent article published in Harvard Business Review, I discussed the growing capabilities of analytics technologies, and the need to be conscious of the privacy implications that accompany them....
View ArticleWhat Happens When BYOD Meets GDPR?
Does your machine know too much? As an example, I am willing to record how many steps I take a day with my Fitbit, but I am hesitant to adopt the Echo Look, fully equipped with Amazon’s AI technology...
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