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Complaint by Defence Forces member ‘destroyed in burglary and flood’

Edit The Irish Times 21 Jun 2016
The Defence Forces were found to have breached data protection law by failing to take appropriate security measures to secure the individual’s personal information. The details were published on Tuesday in Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon’s annual report for 2015 ... Another employer breached the Data Protection Acts by handing over details of an employee’s swipe card accesses to his workplace to his manager....

Central University of Rajasthan, TCS to sign MoU on big data course today

Edit Indian Express 21 Jun 2016
The Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will collaborate to offer a two-year programme in Big >Data Analysis, for the first time in the country, ......

Phone Tracking, Nude Selfies See Chinese Bare All for Credit

Edit Bloomberg 21 Jun 2016
Li Keqiang at a summit for big data and e-commerce ... The Chinese willingness to share is key to China’s plan to create the largest repository of online data on its citizens and their habits in the world ... Evaluating people using their phones is just the application of technology to what’s always gone on in the past, and the data shared is now voluntary, according to Simon Loong, WeLab’s co-founder and CEO....

Employers spying on staff part of 900 data watchdog complaints

Edit Belfast Telegraph 21 Jun 2016
The data watchdog launched investigations into more than 900 complaints last year including CCTV being used to spy on hospital and supermarket staff ... The Data Protection Commission said surveillance cameras at work, direct text message marketing, email issues, banks not keeping personal details up-to-date and a lack of response to concerns most occupied the public last year....

Govt takes blame for high beef price

Edit The Jakarta Post 21 Jun 2016
The slow issuance of import licenses was partly caused by a data mix-up. Agriculture Ministry data suggested no import was necessary because of a higher cattle population than what was reported by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) ... This data issue has also caused damage to local farmers. The high population of cattle — based on the Agriculture Ministry’s data — persuaded Indonesia to halt the importation of cattle....

Cost savings put before data protection compliance - report

Edit RTE 21 Jun 2016
Many organisations in Ireland deploy little resources to manage data protection compliance and view saving money as sufficient justification for poor data protection practices, according to the Data Protection Commissioner ... 2015 saw email queries to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) rise by 6% to 14,427, with an additional 16,713 phone enquiries and 885 postal requests for information....

【New Product Launch】Advantech Launches New RISC-based Industrial Communication Gateway (ADVANTECH Co Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
The concerns with wireless communication are the loss of data during a malfunction/disconnection and the cost of transmitting the data ... Method one is the use of an internal data logger buffer which automatically uploads the data to upper layer devices when communication is resumed ... Through independently configurable settings the ECU-1152 and server are able to adjust a variety of settings to determine how the data filesshould be sent....

Tieto’s Industrial Internet start-up teams up with ‘Best Nordic IoT Start-up 2016’ (Tieto Oyj)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
Data will be the lifeblood of economies and a catalyst for new services in the future. One concrete example Tieto is embarking on is data-driven building automation ... 'This is a typical start-up approach and a perfect example of how start-ups can create new services by using existing data and turning it into information and cool new services ... How the smart office transforms the way we work, Tieto blog.....

Lithuania welcomes the World Wi-Fi Day wearing a leader’s T-shirt (TEO LT AB)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
According to the data of the European Commission, 96.7 per cent of Lithuanian Internet users connect to the Internet at least once a week, which is above the European Union's average ... According to the data of telecommunications company Teo, which offers more than 3,000 public Wi-Fi hot-spots throughout Lithuania, the number of wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) users has increased more than four-fold over the past few years....

EgyptAir Flight 804: Crucial memory chips damaged

Edit CNN 21 Jun 2016
A technical team investigating the crash is repairing the crucial memory chips of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, an official close to the investigation tells CNN ... Officials are conducing electric testing on the data units and tell CNN that they will be able to confirm within a week "if the chips are readable."....

Budget To Support The State's Digital Transformation (NSW Department of Finance and Services)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
Whole-of-government data analytics projects that harness the power of data to tackle difficult social challenges will receive increased funding in the 2016-17 NSW Budget. The NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC) has received $17 million over four years to continue its work in providing data driven insights to help inform policymaking. 'In a world rich with data, the DAC can diagnose the problems confronting many in....

New Ford Mobility Experiment Helps Drivers Find out How Good They Really Are – Potentially Saving Them Money (Ford Italia SpA)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
'We wanted to better understand how people use our products so we could help them to improve that behaviour - and a score, combined with guidance, makes it easier to improve.'. Over a four-month period, plug-in devices gathered data from more than 40 Ford Fiestas, driven by volunteers in London, to record actions that each driver took over 160,000 kilometres and more than 4,000 hours....

Strange but true

Edit The Oklahoman 21 Jun 2016
Until recently, librarians were “analog curators,” “constantly bumping into the physical constraints of storage space and material decay” for “analog data,” says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum magazine. Welcome now to the world of “data digitization,” exemplified by the New York Public Library's offer to make “more than 180,000 digitized items available to anyone with an Internet connection, no questions asked.”....
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