While this should not come as much of a surprise, it is interesting none the less. The Edison email app, one of the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes user’s email inboxes and sells the data. This information came from a confidential J.P. Morgan presentation to investors who use the data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SalesForce Gives Users Access To All of Your Company’s Data In what can only be called an Oops, SalesForce deployed a script last Friday that gave users of certain parts of SalesForce access to all of the data that a company had on the system. The good news is that it didn’t show you anyone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the big data vs. insurance rates battle is in its infancy, that does not mean that insurers don’t have plans. They do. Some are already using data from consumers to affect rates. Some insurers say that the data that consumers give them could lower rates and SOME insurers say that the data won’t be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the downsides of collecting data is that you may have to disclose it. In Uber’s case, it collects a lot of data, so regulators and law enforcement can ask for that data. In this case, even though the release of all this data is not a breach, it still could be a cause […]
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