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The $5B Midterm Elections And The Big Costs Of Big Data

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But when the news broke that the Big Data consulting firm had allegedly illegally harvested the data of 87 million Facebook users to build custom voter profiles that they claimed had helped the Trump team notch the win in the 2016 presidential election, many Americans suddenly took a great deal of interest in the subject.

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Big Lenders Need Help With Big Data, Too

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.” Financial institutions today are also struggling to connect the dots between all of the ways they use data analytics to mitigate risk and add value to their lending operations, added Horrocks. But when it comes to loan origination, modern data analytics are a whole new ball game.

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Socure CEO: Facebook’s Big Data Fix

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It’s much more likely that they engaged in an extensive bot-based data scraping operation to get a lot of that information from Facebook – a practice that is already against Facebook’s rules, and something they work very hard to prevent. And, Webster said, someone should have noticed. “And And it has grown like the internet.”.

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EU’s Vestager Objects To Big Data Acquisitions After Google’s Fitbit Deal

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There’s a worry with regulators, Vestager said, because Fitbit is a data-heavy company. “In In general we have a concern if companies merge because of data,” Vestager said. The Google deal has rivals calling regulators to make sure everything is on the up and up. Google made a deal to buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion euro ($2.65

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Redefining banking through AI and big data

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The answer comes down to understanding that AI is an umbrella name for multiple technologies built on big data and neural networks. Although the future looks promising for AI in banking, this is a highly-regulated sector, and the challenges and obstacles are numerous. Challenges of AI in banking.

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The big data boom – what it means for banking

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Big data has been one of the tech industry’s most popular buzzwords for a few years now. But as the number of data sources grows and technology to process it becomes more powerful, the trend is changing from a nice-to-have addition to becoming an essential part of any company’s offering. Fighting fraud.

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Google Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs

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That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators. In the middle are the consumers whose data fuels eCommerce, social media and basically the entire internet as we know it. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) turns two in May, and just like a toddler, it’s messing things up­ (for some).

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