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Civil liberties campaigner questions role of US data analytics specialist in health service’s data work in battle against Covid-19 By Brian McKenna, Business Applications Editor Published: 29 Apr 2020 16:25 Civil liberties campaigning group Privacy International is questioning the role of Silicon Valley data mining company Palantir in the NHS’s…

A functioning healthcare system depends on caregivers having the right data at the right time to make the right decision about what course of treatment a patient needs. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic and the acceleration of the consumer adoption of telemedicine, along with the fragmentation of care…

Caroline Buckee, a top epidemiologist at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health, has devoted her professional life to studying malaria and other infectious diseases. As news of a novel coronavirus emerged from China, Buckee realized that her area of expertise—how infectious diseases evolve as they move through vulnerable populations—would…

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An enormous trove of hacked emails and passwords from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO), and a research center in Wuhan, China was released in recent days. The information was leaked on sites frequented by Western far-right extremists. Some believe Russia is responsible. Last night,…

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KUALA LUMPUR--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fusionex, a leading data technology provider, was recognized as a key global player offering Big Data solutions and services in the latest MarketsandMarkets 2020 report. Fusionex is the only ASEAN company to be cited in the report. The market research firm’s comprehensive report analyzes Big Data Market by…

Heather Federman Contributor Heather Federman is a privacy lawyer and VP of Privacy and Policy at BigID, a New York-based company that uses AI to help organizations be better privacy stewards for their customers by accurately tracking personal data, governing access to sensitive information and complying with privacy regulations. Previously,…

Stripe co-founder and CEO, Patrick CollisonManuel Blondeau | Getty ImagesStripe has raised even more money to help it ride the wave of a global economy shifting online.Silicon Valley's most valuable start-up announced a new $600 million funding round that bumps its valuation to $36 billion, the company told CNBC. Axios…