Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...

Associate professor at the University of New South Wales school of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr Clinton Fernandes, provides an explanation of what metadata retention is and how it might impact ...

Keeping track of all your data -- where it's been, where it's going, who accesses it, and what they do with it -- is neither fun nor exciting. But it is a necessary substrate for holistic data ...

You, as a decision maker or implementer, are frequently bombarded with the message that the data in your organization is its lifeblood. In the modern digital age, that data has immense value to your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about AI, big data and data science. One common response from businesspeople to the term “big data” is to think that they ...

John Selby is also affiliated with the UNSW Cyberspace Law and Policy Community, other members of which made separate submissions to the PJCIS Inquiry into Data Retention. In 2001, he was seconded as ...

Cloudera also debuts new AI assistant to help data scientists, data engineers and developers boost productivity and streamline data workflows. Data platform giant Cloudera has struck a deal to acquire ...