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Given the pervasive data breaches, online snooping and malicious attacks the %age of people using VPN is still abysmally low. Where do you stand?

Here is an excellent explanation of data pipelines in simple and clear language. Anyone wishing to know what data lakes are, regardless of their technical background, would benefit by reading this.

With the proliferation of online courses it has become very easy to teach yourself any skill that you wish to learn. Many of these online courses are offered at extremely reasonable prices. You may even

In this shared article Rodney Joffe explores the huge potential for IOT to disrupt the cybersecurity risks.With the proliferation of IOT comes the attendant increase in connected devices and  data

No country in the world,  except India, has come up with such a bold initiative - that is to return control of personal data to the consumers. Once implemented it is going to set off a revolution

In this opinion piece,  Daniel Newman, describes the differences between descriptive analytics, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics.  He then goes on to reason why prescriptive analytics

In this episode TechRepublic is making eight predictions on the likely trends in analytics for the year 2020. Which of these predictions do you think will come true? And which of these predictions

There has been various suggestions on how to share the wealth created by data. One such suggestion is corporations value the data and share it with the consumer who is the source of the data itself

An educational piece that explains in clear terms the differences, the roles and relationship between big data and cloud computing. Beginners to data science and businesses which are planning on utilizing

The most significant advantage of data lakes is its flexibility. The retention of data in its native format allows for analysis of huge volume of data in an appropriately timed manner. This article

The suggestion to nationalize a country's data seems to be a better suggestion than that offered by the U.S presidential candidate Andrew Yang, namely, to remunerate the individual citizens. Personal

Unlike living being, inanimate object do not have DNA embedded in them. What if we could artificially embed DNA barcode into inanimate objects? This is exactly what researchers at ETH Zurich in collaboration

When asked what a Data Scientist is, the inventor of the term DJ patil was a little coy about it. He opined that it is a nebulous term which is probably still evolving in its meaning. You can read about

Counter intelligence has three main categories: collective counterintelligence, defensive counterintelligence and offensive counterintelligence. Before the advent of big data and analytics,

The technological advances that are taking place currently is putting most businesses under tremendous pressure to embrace data, ai and analytics. To embrace these technologies, organizations need data,

It is high time for the United States to pass a national law that protects the privacy of individuals and grants protection against unauthorized access and perhaps consider granting property rights to

Previously in a note to a link we shared at  we wrote that as data becomes more and more valuable governments may be pressured to create collective rights or individuals property rights in data. It

In this article Rakesh Jayaprakash, Product Manager at ManageEngine, talks about the challenges facing data curation in the light of the growing number of data sources and the immense volume of data

This is a welcome move by China. Besides addressing it legislation to cover country specific issues, hopefully China will also address the lacunae in the GDPR. Here is a blog post which discusses 5 loopholes

This case concerns residents in the United States of America. Therefore, prima facie, the GDPR does not apply. However there ought to be federal and state laws in the States that deal with and provide