A major privacy fault line has just been revealed as “anonymized data” is now exposed to be not so anonymous after all. An article published by the New York Times reports that new technology can frustrate present efforts to keep data private in a July 23, 2019 article, Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You.

Information Governance ANZ has announced results of its second survey on trends in Australia and New Zealand, which found that implementing an IG framework is the most important priority for organisations, with the three main drivers of IG projects identified as good business management practices (up 16% on the 2017 survey), external regulatory, compliance or legal obligations and internal technology restructuring or transition.

I have just taken an entire website and gigabytes of data offline. It covered a highly successful series of conferences on the data economy. It brought together thought leaders and key decision-makers from around the world for annual retreats – over a decade ago. And now it is gone. Every year, some thousands of sites – including ones with unique information – go offline. Countless further webpages become inaccessible; instead of information, users encounter error messages.