The White House is currently examining a proposed regulation that would empower the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to monitor ...

Article 5 of the GDPR sets out principles that a controller must comply with when collecting and further processing personal data of individuals. The principles state that controllers must, among ...

Over the past year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and government-sponsored entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have committed to exploring innovative ways to expand homeownership ...

Banks are in the midst of a digital transformation, yet a fundamental issue remains: sometimes customers struggle to make sense of their own transactions. Cryptic transaction descriptions, missing ...

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Last week I jumped from the starting point of the newest U.S. anti-trust action against Google into a discussion about the legal and economic status of data. I would like to carry the discussion of ...

Fraud detection is a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, with retail businesses continually adapting to outsmart increasingly sophisticated fraudsters. As ecommerce losses from online payment fraud ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

It’s no secret that Google gathers up large amounts of your data based on your search history. But far less known is that the company has also been automatically tallying up your digital and ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...