Sometimes you read something and you just want to get drunk with the person who wrote it and laugh into the deep night. This is one of those times. I just read the following on Linkedin: “Data, Adapt or Die!” The author’s refreshing style and especially the thrown-in Marx reference lifted my spirits on a … [Read more…]
So in 2006, apparently, a Tesco researcher and architect named Clive Humby first scratched out of the metaphorical soil the nugget that “Data is the New Oil,” and a kind of gold rush followed, with many a pundit repeating and elaborating upon the idea in the ensuing decade-plus debate, and even a load of contrarians … [Read more…]
So GDPR is one of the hottest trending terms in Google right now of interest to those of us doing things with data that might in any way touch on Europeans. Assuming, that is, that we intend to keep doing it after 25 May 2018. As with any regulatory initiative, there’s just no two ways about … [Read more…]