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Over the years, Google has continually improved how search results are shown with things like cards for important figures and businesses, highlights, sports data, and lot more. Now as announced in a blog post the tech giants Google ,  is updating the way it displays table data in search results, which should make it easier to find the information you"re specifically looking for. The idea is to make it easier to discover the data that a lot of these organisations produce and then surface it in an easy to read format on the company’s search results pages. The company is currently working with a few news organisations, like ProPublica , to produce the structured data in the format it needs for its search index. As long as that data is in a table, adding it to the index should be straightforward. Google News Lab’s Simon Rogers wrote in today’s blog post. “Data journalism takes many forms, and it’s not always clear from the headline that there is potential...

SAS urges organizations to embrace Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Lagos, Nigeria: 28 th June 2018 In a rapidly changing business environment, businesses are under pressure to not only comply with constantly changing regulations but also to modernize their processes and systems. The purpose is to help reduce compliance costs, improve efficiency and effectiveness, stay competitive and drive innovation whilst looking for better ways to serve their customers. Against this backdrop, businesses will become more successful based on how they use data, analytics and collaboration in the new analytics economy. This was the thrust of the conversations made at the SAS Road to Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence, AI Showcase in Lagos recently. Other topics treated at the forum include the path to digital transformation - how to prioritize data, analytics and automation processes, and using analytics to accelerate your organization’s path to value as well as demonstration...

More and more pharma companies along with companies in the healthcare and life sciences sector are turning to replace wet ink signatures in documents with computer-generated documents to speed up work and lower cost. While the use of computers and computer systems for operations is unrestricted for industries, for the previously mentioned regulated industries things are slightly different. For using computers in the regulated sectors as part of the manufacturing, quality control, and other operations, it is necessary to use software approved by FDA. Salesforce software is ideal because it comes as validation ready software and its features meet the requirements stipulated in 21 CFR Part 11, considered the bible of the regulated industries. cGMP and more For following the best practices of the industry, pharma, healthcare and life sciences, industries have to comply with cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practices) in their operations.  According to the experts at Flosum.com , to int...

Ahead of the new EU data regulations which will take effect on May 25, the instant messaging app, WhatsApp which is also owned by Facebook Inc. is raising the minimum age limit to 16 in the European Union. The European Union"s General Data Protection Regulation, (GPDR) will accord users the control over how their data is used as regards the information they supply to internet-based companies. The new law will also take cognizance of kids who use platforms like WhatsApp. Since the platform does not verify users" ages before accessing their site, it will now to obliged to make an effort to ensure that a parent has given permission or authorization for their kids or wards to use the online service. This new law applies to users below 16. Other countries aside the UK will maintain the cut-off age at 13.  Read more: The New European Privacy Laws Will Not Protect The Other 1.5 Billion Facebook Users The app currently allows users from the age of 13 to use the app but will begin to ...

In the newly changed terms of service, 1.5 billion members will be unprotected under the strict rules coming to Europe. The new policies follow a series of questions from lawmakers and regulators in the past week, concerning how the social network handles users" information. Facebook users outside the EU will be governed by Facebook Inc. in the US other than the company in Ireland. This automatically sees that over 70% of the users outside the EU are unprotected. This may be a move by Facebook to continuously control users" data or better still, avoid applying the EU"s stringent rules. In December, Facebook"s statistics showed that the social network had 239 million active users in the US and Canada, 370 million in Europe and 1.5 billion users in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia. This vividly explains that Facebook still has a superior power over the majority number of users. Although Facebook claims to apply the same rules for its users regardless of their...

Cambridge Analytica , the UK-based data firm responsible for harvesting user data from Facebook, was planning to develop its own cryptocurrency for the purpose of storing and selling personal data. Facebook recently confirmed that it has identified 87 million accounts whose profile information had been scraped by Cambridge Analytica . It seems the data analytics firm had a larger goal beyond political advertising to incentivize the data for cryptocurrency. Reuters and The New York Times first reported it, explaining that the Cambridge Analytica intended to raise funds through an initial coin offering, also that the digital coin would have helped people store online personal data and even sell it, former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser told the Times. Cambridge Analytica, which obtained the data of 87 million Facebook users, was hoping to raise as much as $30 million through the venture, anonymous sources told Reuters. Cambridge Analytica confirmed to Reuters that it had ...

Following the scandal that has trailed Facebook in the past weeks, the social network has halted its plans to match patients" data from hospitals to their accounts on Facebook, the BBC reported. Facebook has faced criticisms since the wake of the scandal with Cambridge Analytica about the improper sharing of users" private information. This has caused a significant setback and the Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the social media platform had not made any meaningful revenue in ad sales since the wake of the scandal. The company had initially planned to collect information from patients in the hospital to match it with their information on the social network, but it is yet to receive any health records. Christina Farr from CBNC discovered the data sharing proposal. Two anonymous persons informed her that the social network had written proposal letters to health care centres and organisations including Stanford Medical School and the American Coll...

Some African nations now looking into the activities of Cambridge Analytica  Many African countries, Nigeria inclusive do not have data laws to protect internet users and protect the privacy of individuals. Unlike in Europe and other western countries where data privacy law accords the users some level of protection on their information, it"s a different case in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. It"s probably that there are deeper problems that the citizenry could be bothered with. Many Africans have little or no recourse on data breach matters because legal backings and regulatory measures do not exist. Kenya and Nigeria are countries with a growing population of internet users; still, there"s no such law in place to protect the privacy of users. According to Britain"s Guardian newspaper, recent revelations about the British owned firm suggest that the African continent may be slightly affected. Cambridge Analytica was consulted to work on the 2013 and 20117 campa...

Following the Facebook Inc. breach which saw over 50 million users" data inappropriately used by Cambridge Analytica, Apple Chief, Time Cook, and IBM Corp Chief have requested for an intense oversight on the external use of users" data, Reuters reported. Tim Cook, Apple boss, emphasised on the use of a well-crafted regulation, in line with what IBM Corp Chief, Virginia Rometty said. He noted that social network owners should be transparent with their terms and conditions. In retrospect, users should be in control of their data or information. During the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, Tim Cook spoke on the necessity to review the regulations to prevent users from surprises in the future. He said: " It"s clear to me that something, some profound change in needed. I"m personally not a big fan of regulation because sometimes, regulations can have unexpected consequences to it; however, I think this certain situation is so dire and has become so large...

Recently, Facebook has been in the news for exploiting users" data without permission. A few days ago some privacy campaigners accused the social media of breaching data protection law. While the new rule by the legislation is yet to come into force, Facebook is under fire for aiding Donald Trump"s 2016 election campaign. The London-based firm, Cambridge Analytica is accused of breaching data rights by inappropriately collecting personal data of about 50million users on Facebook to influence the US election in 2016.  Political figures in the UK, Europe, and the US have requested that Facebook gives a vivid explanation on how the data on numerous users was produced. Both firms have denied any wrong-doing. Facebook says it will investigate Cambridge Analytica"s pages on its platform to determine how the data of millions of millions of users was harvested if they had been gathered unjustly and were still handy. Given this, the social media firm says it has hired a digital f...

Facebook which acquired WhatsApp in 2014 made an official announcement of its intention to coordinate Facebook and WhatsApp to offer "better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them." While Facebook may be acting in good faith, the EU Commission thinks that this will constitute a breach of an existing data protection law. The UK has denied Facebook the access to allow UK citizens WhatsApp data beyond the purpose of chatting. The EU commission maintains that the Data Protection Act allows people the right to privacy and WhatsApp’s attempt to coordinate both Apps defeats the consumers" rights. Given this, WhatsApp has signed an undertaken that stipulates that they have given "a public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook until they can do so in compliance with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation which comes into force in May this year." Read more: German Court Orders Facebook To Stop Collecting...