If someone is going to profit off consumers’ Facebook data, it might as well be the consumer, right? That was Oli Frost’s thinking, which is why the 26-year-old Londoner put his entire Facebook data history up for auction on eBay last weekend. As some of...
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It was a long time coming, but it’s here. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form,...
A month away, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) looms large. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the trade group for the financial industry, released a framework on Thursday (April 12) to protect the data of consumers when they give third parties the right to access that information. Get the Full Story Complete the...
The problem financial institutions (FIs) have with data, Worldpay’s VP of Integrated Payments, Data and Fraud Products, Nicole Jass, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, isn’t that they don’t have it — they and the world are literally awash in data at this point. The problem is...
The deadline for compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation framework is fast approaching. Many companies aren’t ready yet. To get up to speed, and get data in place – in anonymized fashion – IBM and Mastercard have created Truata, a data trust. CEO...
Big Data is never at rest. The information flow is constant, and so is the analysis that must take place to generate corporate action -- but at the speed of machines, as SVP Jeff Bettencourt tells PYMNTS. One caveat: Grabbing data on the fly could...
In the wake of breaches that have compromised the data of millions of Americans and companies as far-flung as Equifax and Uber, industry observers and participants told a House subcommittee on Wednesday that data security should be standardized at a national level. Get the Full...
