The past couple of years have made it abundantly clear just how much of our personal data is being tracked by corporations every day. Now, one of the world’s biggest fast food companies is hopping on the bandwagon.
McDonald’s announced on Monday that…
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MySpace lost 12 years of music and photos, leaving a sizable gap in social network history
It’s 2019 and MySpace is newsworthy again. Unfortunately, it’s for the worst of reasons: massive data loss.
On Sunday, news spread concerning a longtime data issue plaguing MySpace, a site that was once the internet’s leading social network. Millions of songs, photos, and videos that were uploaded to the site before 2015 were lost during a data migration, according to MySpace, with no chance of recovery.
“As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago, may no longer be available on or from MySpace,” read a since-removed announcement on the website. “We apologize for the inconvenience.” Read more…
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View More MySpace lost 12 years of music and photos, leaving a sizable gap in social network historyThis campaign wants UK politicians to wake up to the dangers of the gender data gap
The real-world ramifications of the gender data gap are all around, us all the time.
From the size of the phone currently in your palm, to the temperature of the office you’re sitting in, to the way your car has been built, to the way the medicine you take has been made.
A new book by feminist campaigner and author Caroline Criado Perez has uncovered the dangers of not collecting data about women, and the fact that data bias is putting women’s lives at risk.
A new GoFundMe campaign led by writer and activist Tracy King aims to send a copy of the book — Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men — to every MP in the country in the hope that lawmakers will take action about this important issue. Read more…
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View More This campaign wants UK politicians to wake up to the dangers of the gender data gapWe aren’t collecting data about women and it’s literally putting their lives at risk
Night after night at the stroke of midnight, the street lights in my hometown would switch off, plunging everything into darkness. I lived in this town for three years during my twenties — three years of having a self-imposed curfew because of local authority cuts.
During those years, I had to make like Cinderella and get home before 12. Not because my car would turn into a pumpkin, but because I was terrified I’d find myself outdoors in the pitch black night. Every plan I made had to factor in the impending darkness that would arrive like clockwork, bringing with it an immediate threat to my safety. Without setting out to do so, my local authority had failed me. Read more…
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View More We aren’t collecting data about women and it’s literally putting their lives at riskBecome a data whiz with these online SQL training courses, on sale for an extra 60% off
When it comes to STEM jobs, it’s so many acronyms, so little time. But if you want to land an awesome data job with a competitive salary, there’s just one you need to know: SQL.
SQL (pronounced “see cue el”), which stands for Structured Query Languag…
Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloud
Like virtually every big enterprise company, a few years ago, the German auto giant Daimler decided to invest in its own on-premises data centers. And while those aren’t going away anytime soon, the company today announced that it has successfully moved its on-premises big data platform to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. This new platform, which the […]
View More Why Daimler moved its big data platform to the cloudBig companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough
I remember watching MIT professor Andrew McAfee years ago telling stories about the importance of data over gut feeling, whether it was predicting successful wines or making sound business decisions. We have been hearing about big data and data-driven decision making for so long, you would think it has become hardened into our largest organizations […]
View More Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enoughBecome a data-crunching pro with these online courses dedicated to Microsoft Excel
To some, Microsoft Excel is more than just a mind-numbing spreadsheet.
It has legions of dedicated followers (seriously, the subreddit alone boasts over 100,000 “spreadsheet warriors”), and the staunchest power users never fail to wax poetic about how Excel changed their life.
You can’t blame them; gaining proficiency in Excel can set you on the path to a fatter paycheck and help you make sense of large data sets. It may seem daunting to learn the world’s most powerful office tool, but you know what they say, people only fear what they don’t understand. For starters, you can pick up the 2019 Microsoft Excel Bootcamp Bundle — now on sale at the Mashable Shop for $39 — and begin your journey to becoming a data-crunching pro. Read more…
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View More Become a data-crunching pro with these online courses dedicated to Microsoft ExcelHas the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?
Few issues divide the tech community quite like privacy. Much of Silicon Valley’s wealth has been built on data-driven advertising platforms, and yet, there remain constant concerns about the invasiveness of those platforms. Such concerns have intensified in just the last few weeks as France’s privacy regulator placed a record fine on Google under Europe’s […]
View More Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?Twitter bug revealed some Android users’ private tweets
Twitter accidentally revealed some users’ “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon. The “Protect your Tweets” setting typically allows people to use Twitter in a non-public fashion. These users get to approve who can follow them and who can view their content. For some Android users over a period of several years, that may […]
View More Twitter bug revealed some Android users’ private tweetsAWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWS
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service today launched Backup, a new tool that makes it easier for developers on the platform to back up their data from various AWS services and their on-premises apps. Out of the box, the service, which is now available to all developers, lets you set up backup policies for services like Amazon EBS […]
View More AWS launches Backup, a fully-managed backup service for AWSAmazon sent over 1,000 audio recordings of an Alexa user to the wrong person
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How much data does Amazon have on you?
One user emailed Amazon asking for all the personal data the company had stored on him. In return, this user received an email link from the ecommerce giant with more than one thousand Alexa recordings made by a completely different customer.
According to the German publication c’t, as reported by Reuters, the user who made the request for his data received an email from Amazon with a link to a 100MB zip file containing 1,700 audio files recorded by the company’s voice assistant, Alexa.
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