Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-11-09
By the Infoglide Team
NYTimes Dealbook: Insider Scheme Had Touches of James Bond
“Unlike the Galleon case, where senior officials at corporations passed tips on early earnings estimates to people at the fund, the Goffer case centers on allegations that may sound more familiar to students of the insider trading scandals of 25 years ago — early tips about deals from the people involved in doing them. According to the criminal complaints, Mr. Cutillo passed the information along through a friend, Jason C. Goldfarb, 31, who specialized in workers compensation law at a private firm in Brooklyn and who was also arrested on Thursday.”
Computerworld: Data quality vendors missing the mark, study finds
“One-fifth of respondents felt data quality is a prerequisite to an MDM initiative and wanted to see more vendor offerings integrating those two areas. Hayler says one would expect vendor partnerships between the areas of data quality and MDM, and that is precisely what is currently happening in the industry.”
docinthemachine: Encrypt EHR — Else HIPAA Violations Need Be Reported To Government & Media
“For example, if a physician maintains patient information in a laptop computer containing the unsecured information of more than 500 patients and the laptop is stolen, the physician would be required to notify not only the patients affected by the breach, but would likely need to also notify the DHHS and the media. A medical practice need not report a breach if the patient information has been properly encrypted – because information that is encrypted is not considered ‘unsecure.’”
Initiate Blog: The Brittle Nature of Data Warehouses
“Usually, only a small percentage of the data are ever used. So why bother? The TCO for extracting, copying, converting, transferring, transforming, integrating, propagating, backing-up, loading, and verifying the data skyrockets far beyond its value and injects significant risk and brittleness into the entire ecosystem.”
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