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• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Ordnance Survey Data Hub marks first anniversary with developer highlights

  A year after its launch, the Ordnance Survey Data Hub is claiming a 50% increase in like-for-like downloads. The resource has proved its mettle during the Covid-19 pandemic for the London Ambulance Service and has benefited the National Library of ...

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  How Transport for West Midlands works with geospatial data

  Covid-19 showed why greater data granularity is key, with Transport for West Midlands turning to geospatial data to understand demand for services

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators

  Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with the idea over drinks: build a cryptophone network with a built-in backdoor and sell it to crime gangs around the world

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  CIO interview: John Hunter of Council of Europe takes cloud route to document management

  John Hunter, CIO of the Council of Europe, describes how his team has modernised the human rights organisation’s document management in the cloud

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Databricks unveils data sharing protocol as part of data lakehouse

  Databricks announces launch of open source project called Delta Sharing at Data + AI Summit, with backing of data providers and business intelligence tool suppliers

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

  The summer school for chief data officers, run by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, promises data leaders a curriculum to match the elevated salience of the CDO role

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy

  Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience

  Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  City of Helsinki adopts MyData principles to improve digital services

  Principles on the use of personal data for the benefit of society will guide Finnish capital’s ambitious digital plans

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Microsoft launches Viva as employee experience platform born out of Teams

  Microsoft has launched an “employee experience platform”, based on Microsoft Teams, said to aid the integration of the working environment

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  Guide Dogs data strategy navigates path to organisational view

  Guide Dogs CIO Gerard McGovern is mapping out a data strategy that is aimed at taking the charity from an individual to an organisational view of data

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Dreamforce 2020: Hyperforce shifts Salesforce to public cloud

  Salesforce COO Bret Taylor announced “Hyperforce” during Marc Benioff’s opening keynote at the virtual version of the supplier’s 2020 Dreamforce event in San Francisco

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Nordic countries to develop common digital system

  Common digital platform will help small and medium-sized enterprises across the Nordic region with data sharing

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks published unredacted cables after password was disclosed in book

  WikiLeaks published a cache of unredacted government cables after the publication of a book containing the password led to their publication on other parts of the internet, court told

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  CIO interview: Julie Berry of Saffery Champness advances business advisory role for IT

  Julie Berry, IT director at accountancy firm Saffery Champness, describes how her team has enhanced its advisory role to the business, in part through the implementation of a cloud-based document management system

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Julian Assange held back 15,000 documents to prevent harm to US government

  Investigative journalist John Goetz said today that WikiLeaks held back publication of thousands of documents that could harm individuals

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  TikTok-Oracle partnership moves forward for consideration

  Joint venture proposal could create thousands of jobs and secure TikTok’s future outside China

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  Political parties harvest personal data to create profiles on voters, most of it wrong

  The UK’s three main political parties are collecting personal data on voters, but much of it is wrong and its use may fall foul of data protection laws

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Facebook allows US users to disable political ads

  Users of the social media platform will soon be able to opt out of seeing politically motivated posts

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Norway’s contact-tracing app suspended over privacy concerns

  Norway has been given until 23 June to justify the location tracking of citizens who download its contract-tracing app

• May 26, 2020 26 May'20

  Max Schrems accuses Ireland of ‘Kafkaesque’ delay in Facebook GDPR investigation

  Privacy campaigner Max Schrems has urged the European Commission to intervene after the Irish Data Protection Commission allegedly used ‘Kafkaesque’ tactics to delay investigations into Facebook’s compliance with GDPR

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  FBI search warrants reveal Trump aide’s messages to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  FBI search warrants reveal Trump campaigner Roger Stone sent private messages to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the site published thousands of documents that damaged Hillary Clinton’s election campaign

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Data excess linked to climate change

  IT departments are unwittingly contributing to climate change by storing too much data, much of which will never be used

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be legally extradited for ‘political offences’, say lawyers

  Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argue that he has been charged with political offences and cannot be legally extradited to the US under the US-UK extradition treaty

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  Assange extradition is a politically motivated ‘abuse of power’, court hears

  US government’s attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US is politically motivated and an abuse of process, court told

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Refinitiv uses Google Cloud to revolutionise delivery of huge datasets

  Financial data giant is expanding delivery of its services in the cloud, removing the need for customers to use hard disks and trucks to transport large datasets onsite

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Dutch tech firm transforms real-life football through video game concept

  Tech company that helped the Belgian football team in the last World Cup is changing the way footballers are scouted and teams are trained

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Smart use of data takes Dutch railways further

  De Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways), ensures, among other things, that 1.2 million train passengers arrive at their destination every day. Through a subsidiary, it’s using data to improve both the customer experience and internal processes

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Russia’s VTB and Rostelecom focus on big data

  Russian financial services and telecoms enterprises to create a platform that will allow them and other organisations to utilise big data technology

• December 30, 2019 30 Dec'19

  Top 10 information management stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2019

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Lloyd's of London secures £300m for digital transformation

  Lloyd's of London has secured funding for a modernisation programme that will start next year

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Online fact-checkers warn of misinformation on unprecedented scale in 2019 election

  The UK’s elections watchdog, the Electoral Commission, is calling for new powers to regulate online political advertising

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Dreamforce 2019: Benioff puts data centre stage as protestors disrupt speech

  Salesforce founder and co-CEO outlines data integration and data visualisation product vision underpinned by MuleSoft and garnished with Tableau

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?

  Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise

  Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Brexit disrupts FCA exploration into data use in wholesale banking

  The extra work for banks due to Brexit preparations has caused a delay to FCA work on the use of data in the wholesale banking sector

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  London Stock Exchange agrees to acquire Refinitiv for £22bn

  The London Stock Exchange has agreed to a multi-billion pound takeover of data giant Refinitiv

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  London Stock Exchange eyes £22bn acquisition of Refinitiv to expand data capabilities

  The London Stock Exchange is looking at a huge tech acquisition to provide customers access to a wealth of data services built using the latest technologies

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  Budgets for customer experience projects grow, but more are stalling

  Organisations are spending on advanced analytics to improve customer experience

• May 29, 2019 29 May'19

  Blockchain and deep neural networks show digital archive promise

  Every event, past and present, is in the digital archive, but there is growing concern that this data can be easily manipulated to change historical facts

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Facebook engaged in ‘calculated’ campaign to eliminate competition, claims businessman

  A US businessman is seeking damages from Facebook after accusing the social media company of unfairly blocking “humorous” Facebook pages which generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Dutch road management organisation encourages startups to innovate

  Dutch highway management agency RWS is sharing data with the private sector to stimulate innovation

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Mike Lynch heads to High Court to defend against HP allegations

  The UK’s biggest fraud case commences, with the former CEO of Autonomy, Mike Lynch, attempting to clear his name

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  IBM demos quantum leap in artificial intelligence

  Working with MIT and Oxford university, the researchers have looked at how quantum computing can accelerate data classification in machine learning

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation

  The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

  OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate...

• March 02, 2019 02 Mar'19

  Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection law

  Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg invited one of the chancellor’s children to Facebook’s office as part of a intensive lobbying programme to influence European data protection legislation

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Interview: London Grid for Learning CEO on putting technology to work in schools

  John Jackson, CEO of the London Grid for Learning, discusses how the organisation supports technology adoption in schools

• February 15, 2019 15 Feb'19

  Lucidworks CEO talks up ‘data experiences’

  Will Hayes discusses Lucidworks’ Asian expansion plans, as well as efforts to help enterprises deliver rich data experiences for employees and customers through AI-augmented search engines

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Explainable AI: How and why did the AI say ‘true’?

  The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42, according to Deep Thought in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ – but experts need to explain AI decisions