"The end result is the same: You caused me to lose my data, " he says.
But the center of my data universe is moving away from the single important object.
If I was told that Directgov had lost my data I could not exactly change to another VAT supplier.
The service provider that addresses this without compromising my data will be the next Apple.
All I can tell you is that my data were published after peer review in a scientific journal.
If I can effectively access my data on any device I have to hand, I can be effective.
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At the time I felt I could trust Google more than I could trust some random startup or app with my data.
The API (application programming interface), available publicly on the internet, would allow LinkedIn to fetch my data from the relevant storage provider.
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My data is all there in the IRS database mingled with yours.
You may ask whether I had a good backup of my data.
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All of which positively guarantees that within an hour, my ASUS will crash and burn and all my data will be lost.
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But if it is that bad at suggesting matches for me, I shudder at what assumptions they are making based on my data.
How will I know if my data speeds have been reduced?
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Green Button Connect My Data enables energy customers to securely and automatically transfer their own energy data to authorized third parties, if they choose to do so.
As neat as the disaster-proof drives are, I still prefer to have my data stored off-site because it offers the best chance of keeping my data safe across all eventualities.
My worry is that I depend on LinkedIn, and an increasing number of other companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter to name a few), to make sure my data is safe and not compromised.
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If not, or if so and you still deem the belief viable, move on the next step: how do I construct a small experiment to determine if my data-supported belief is, in fact, real.
All of my data resides in the cloud.
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What will happen to my data then?
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"Maybe my data should be centralized on a server where I can simply access it from any computer with a browser, " says Jerry Michalski, former editor of Esther Dyson's "Release 1.0" newsletter, who recently started a company called Sociate.
Instead of seeing me as an entity they can extract data from, in order to upsell and cross sell, or indeed on order to merchant my data on to other retailers, I want a service provider that I can genuinely trust my data to and who can broker relationships with me across the virtual world.
But I do worry that some day the cloud fairy will turn into the wicked cloud fairy of the west and start charging me for every post, or that the cloud will burst and my data will become inaccessible, which is why I keep a copy of everything I post on my own server (and then I back that up).
In other words, can I find in my Big Data analytical support for a conflicting story to my own?
If I switch to the euro - how will I keep my historical data?
Or, in other words, how do I help resolve the conflict my Big Data and analysis has generated?
All my valuable data is in one place, so I only have to back up data from one place.
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Of course, I assume that my privacy is protected during collection, transmission, storage, and processing of all my personal data.
Being on Twitter is generating a steady flow of inbound customer leads, partnership introductions and quality recruits for my business data startup Domo.
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