Concerns over AI Chat Privacy
Many of the GenAI services are using the free model of the past, where they use your data in ways you might not expect. Now, a court is ensuring OpenAI keeps your chat data around.
2025-09-03
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Data Privacy and Protection
2024-09-16
88 reads
A Lack of Privacy in Smart Cars
With new vehicles becoming more and more computerized and controlled, is data privacy an issue?
2023-11-29
183 reads
The Chief Data Officer
The idea of a Chief Data Officer is growing in many companies. Steve thinks this is a good thing.
2022-03-16
143 reads
Location Data Is Not Anonymous
The world of public data is scary for Steve, even when the data is aggregated. It appears that keeping information private is becoming harder, and perhaps, impossible.
2021-10-04
154 reads
Tracking, Privacy, and Lots of Data
Apple has implemented some privacy controls for customers, which some advertisers don't like, but Steve agrees with.
2021-06-16
134 reads
Agree or Lose Features
Forcing users to agree to a new EULA or removing features seems like a bad idea to Steve.
2021-05-26
163 reads
Differential Privacy
Steve looks at a technique that some think will allow more data to be used in research and training.
2021-05-24
111 reads
Finding Legal Data
Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-04-19
177 reads
Getting Started with Azure Purview
Introduction Azure Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance service that helps you discover and get insight into your available data. It replaces Azure Data Catalog and is now based on Apache Atlas, one of the leading open-source data governance and metadata frameworks. Apache Atlas was created by Hortonworks and big names within finance, pharma, etc. […]
2021-02-18
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Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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