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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.

Using differential privacy to harness big data and preserve privacy

“..there’s a downside to big data, as it requires aggregating vast amounts of potentially sensitive personal information. Whether amassing medical records, scraping social media profiles, or tracking banking and credit card transactions, data scientists risk jeopardizing the privacy of the individuals whose records they collect. And once data is stored on a server, it may …

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The privacy paradox – Investigating discrepancies between expressed privacy concerns and actual online behavior – A systematic literature review

This is not a new post, dating from 2017, but it is worth listing here because of its increasing relevance in our leaky digital world and consumers’ unending quest for pleasure and benefits. “Known as the privacy paradox, it is a documented fact that users have a tendency towards privacy-compromising behavior online which eventually results …

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Webinar: Privacy today. How to protect personal data while addressing Covid-19?

Data is the main fuel of our digital economies. Our financial transactions, communications, relationships and interactions with governments and businesses generate data that is collected, bought and sold. As the collection and analysis of data becomes more sophisticated and accurate, and as datasets grow to become Big Data, the opportunities ahead seem infinite – but …

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Breitbart.com is Partnering with RT.com & Other Sites via Mislabeled Advertising Inventory

The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s ads.txt standard is being abused by publishers mislabeling and sharing a “DIRECT” label for account-bidding IDs used in online bidding protocols — with the DIRECT labels being spread out across sometimes hundreds of unrelated websites. This inventory mislabeling creates online advertising Dark Pool Sales Houses, a market behavior that likely violates …

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The Top 12 Ways the CPRA Significantly Increases Privacy Rights

““Version 2.0” of the CCPA — the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) of 2020 aka Proposition 24 […] would be a great win in strengthening privacy rights in California. Here are the top 12 privacy enhancements found in the CPRA: #1 Creates a New Privacy Right — The Right to Limit the Use of Sensitive …

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What Privacy Shield organizations should do in the wake of ‘Schrems II’

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its decision in “Schrems II” that invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield arrangement. “Privacy Shield had served as an approved “adequacy” mechanism to protect cross-border transfers of personal data from the European Union to the United States under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. More than 5,000 …

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