ML for marketing and advertising doesn't particularly concern me.  There's an old joke that half of all advertising revenue is wasted, the problem is no-one is sure which half.

For GDPR Article 17 "Right of Erasure" may require you to have a mechanism to delete all forum posts and private messages for a particular user.
I don't think  "Right...

Tom Thomson is now even more right in a GDPR world.  With a €20millon fine hanging on it you want to make sure that all steps to prevent exposure of...

I continue to muddle through but I make a point of capturing my muddlings on Confluence so the next poor sod has at least a strong starting point.

The...

Natural language processing of forum posts, complaints emails, OCR feeders from scanned communications.  Scans of competitors print adverts.  All can be processed much more simply than before.
CCTV footage ,...

In the UK the electricity meters get read once a quarter.  Smart metering (if the public accept them) enables continuous monitoring and potentially down to specific devices.
In theory it...

There are some unexpected consequences for fitness apps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42853072

I really dislike the "it's not web scale" argument against RDBMS.  Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, NetFlix genuinely need web scale technologies which is why they invented their own.
The majority...

I think a key part of GDPR "Privacy by design and default" that is missed is that it isn't just technical, it is ensuring staff are knowledgeable , organisational process...

Complying with GDPR from a software point of view is making sure you have the mechanisms to ask for consent without preticked boxes to signal consent.  Your customer must make...

As John Mitchell says there is a lot of misinformation out there.  The guidance from the ICO in the UK is pretty straight forward.  The act itself isn't unreadable legalese. ...