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Views from the front lines of the data-analytics revolution

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Source : http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/views_from_the_front_lines_of_the_data_analytics_revolution The link above is to a very good McKinsey article titled “Views from the front lines of the data-analytics revolution” Key points for me 1.     Senior management don’t understand Data irrespective if it is big, small, open, flat, simple or complex 2.     Privacy is not the issue – control, controls, authority and rights are 3.     Talent is always a problem but it never seen as a strategic issue
Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what's to come.

How data will transform business

What does the future of business look like? In an informative talk, Philip Evans gives a quick primer on two long-standing theories in strategy — and explains why he thinks they are essentially invalid.

Edward Snowden at TED on the right to data privacy

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he says, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens

Image is everything - it is just that we cannot machine interrupt it

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interrupting our free from communication is much more difficult than we think