Privacy has to be a driving part of the digital economy
Today, a vast landscape of data fuels the global digital economy. Through data mining and analytics, gathering valuable information on a specific demographic or group of people has become easier to accomplish. The availability of these bits of information opens up a world of opportunities for data-driven companies to disrupt and innovate within the digital space. In the same token, this also makes digital users more vulnerable to data security and privacy risks. Volumes of data, when accessed by the wrong hands, can threaten the tenets of what privacy is all about. And while the implementatio...