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Social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach

CTOvision

Read why Ellen Tannam says that social media exposure can increase the cost of a data breach by many times on Silicon Republic : 2018 has been a year dominated by data breaches. Companies from Facebook to Google and Marriott all fell victim to data breaches in the past 12 months.

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‘Tis The Season For Consumers To Still Not Buy On Social Media

Forrester IT

This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. Despite news of brands such as Nike, Adidas, Allbirds, and SeatGeek successfully selling on social networks, social media is still not a place that consumers buy products and services.

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What Marketers Need To Know: Social Media Q1 2018 Roundup

Forrester IT

Q1 2018 earnings for Twitter, Facebook, and Snap largely showed minimal impact from the recent data privacy crisis. There were no surprises: Twitter is building off its Q4 2017 momentum, Facebook continues to grow its user base, and Snap is still going through an identity crisis.

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Nintendo's updated social media guidelines target modified games, leaks from data mining

TechSpot

Nintendo's Game Content Guidelines for Online Video & Image Sharing Platforms, which have been updated for the first time since 2018, now include a section that states it will target: " features unauthorized game consoles and/or software not licensed by Nintendo or features video, images, sound sources, etc., that cannot.

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Google+ Will Shut Down After Security Hole Exposed User Data to Outside Developers, Report Says

CTOvision

The Google+ security bug gave outside developers access to the private data of hundreds of thousands of the social network’s users between 2015 and March 2018, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Google is shutting down Google Plus permanently after a major flaw was made public.

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Is web3 data storage ushering in a new era of privacy?

Dataconomy

For many years, the personal data of billions of people has been stored on centralized servers owned by big tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Thankfully, a new era is beginning to dawn, carried on the winds of change that gusted after the Cambridge Analytica scandal came to light in 2018. In the past two years alone, 2.6

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How automation enables better data governance

CIO Business Intelligence

quintillion bytes of new data (that’s 2.5 More than 60% of corporate data is unstructured, according to AIIM , and a significant amount of this unstructured data is in the form of non-traditional “records,” like text and social media messages, audio files, video, and images. Data Management followed by 18 zeros!).