A Lack of Privacy in Smart Cars
With new vehicles becoming more and more computerized and controlled, is data privacy an issue?
2023-11-29
131 reads
Data Privacy and Protection
The Chief Data Officer
The idea of a Chief Data Officer is growing in many companies. Steve thinks this is a good thing.
2022-03-16
133 reads
Location Data Is Not Anonymous
The world of public data is scary for Steve, even when the data is aggregated. It appears that keeping information private is becoming harder, and perhaps, impossible.
2021-10-04
143 reads
Tracking, Privacy, and Lots of Data
Apple has implemented some privacy controls for customers, which some advertisers don't like, but Steve agrees with.
2021-06-16
124 reads
Agree or Lose Features
Forcing users to agree to a new EULA or removing features seems like a bad idea to Steve.
2021-05-26
150 reads
Differential Privacy
Steve looks at a technique that some think will allow more data to be used in research and training.
2021-05-24
93 reads
Finding Legal Data
Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-04-19
157 reads
Getting Started with Azure Purview
Introduction Azure Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance service that helps you discover and get insight into your available data. It replaces Azure Data Catalog and is now based on Apache Atlas, one of the leading open-source data governance and metadata frameworks. Apache Atlas was created by Hortonworks and big names within finance, pharma, etc. […]
2021-02-18
4,745 reads
Data Privacy Grows in California
Changes in data privacy law in California are demanded by consumers.
2021-01-23
56 reads
The Best Way to Protect Sensitive Data
Steve has a thought on the best way to protect sensitive data.
2021-01-07
131 reads
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The Backup File Extension
I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file?
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