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Author: Gam Dias

Gam is data strategist and digital product manager working in the globally interconnected world of people, process and data. He has worked with global Fortune 500 companies such as Aviva Insurance, Rio Tinto, Cisco, Hyatt and has created and executed roadmaps that brought to market new data products, and realised greater internal efficiencies.

Open banking: clarity provided for banks over ‘opt outs’ and revoking consent

“ANALYSIS: Customer convenience cannot be prioritised over broad aims of payment services laws to open up the market to greater competition and innovation. That is the message a European regulator has delivered to banks in relation to the scope they have to help customers manage and revoke their consent to open banking services.” Open banking: …

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Practical guide to building future proof Open Data Portals

The EU Member States are making visible progress with regard to their Open Data transformation journey, with many Open Data initiatives as well as portals being launched each year. However in order to ensure such data infrastructures remain relevant over time, a series of aspects should be considered and embedded in the design stages of …

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Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation

Since approval of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016, it has been widely and repeatedly claimed that a ‘right to explanation’ of all decisions made by automated or artificially intelligent algorithmic systems will be legally mandated by the GDPR once it is in force, in 2018. However, there are several reasons …

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Digital’s Cleaving Power and Its Consequences

“AI is not about reproducing human intelligence, it is about doing without it. [..] Today, AI decouples successful problem solving from intelligent behaviour, and it is thanks to this decoupling that it can relentlessly colonise the boundless space of tasks, whenever these can be successfully performed without any understanding, awareness, sensitivity, concerns, hunches, insights, meaning, …

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Healthcare Data Blocking: Fact or Fiction?

The HHS says EHR vendors and providers have been hoarding patient information to maintain their competitive edge, but not all experts agree. In April of 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made headline news by sending a report to Congress entitled: Report on Health Information Blocking.1 The report, which was compiled by …

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