#data governance company?

[elsa16744]

Building a Robust Data Governance Framework: Best Practices and Key Considerations  

A good framework for data governance compliance assists organizations in ensuring data security. As a result, they can combat cybersecurity risks and fulfill regulatory requirements for responsible enterprise data operations. This post will focus on building a relevant, outcome-oriented data governance framework and strategy. 

A comprehensive strategy will help protect an organization’s digital assets from different data breaches. Global brands want to avoid reputational damage and regulatory penalties by picking up governance initiatives. However, they seek reliable compliance approaches to maximize the value of data. That is why they want to know how to foster data etiquette for accuracy, timely access to insights, and relevance to business decisions. 

Best Practices and Key Considerations for Building an Effective Data Governance Framework 

1. Clearly Communicating Process Objectives and Data Ownership 

Before a data governance framework is implemented, the objectives need to be clearly defined. What is the organization aiming to achieve by employing a data governance company? Some objectives may include the following. 

-          better quality of information, 

-          regulatory compliance, 

-          data-driven decision-making (DDDM). 

These goals will determine the governance framework’s structure. 

It also becomes very important to define data asset ownership. The data governance team, led by a data governance officer (DGO), must be held responsible for this. Those data professionals will develop data access and usage policies. They will also monitor data quality and address data-related issues across the entire organization. 

2. Drafting Comprehensive Data Protection and Anti-Espionage Policies 

A good data governance framework is based on well-articulated policies and standards. Those documents will guide data solutions and management practices, helping the firms and their suppliers. Such policies should define the most important compliance areas. 

Considerations must include unbiased data classification and 24/7 security incident tracking. Moreover, privacy assurance assessments may be conducted. A broader data lifecycle management (DLM) vision can further streamline governance compliance efforts. Companies must also establish user permission standards. They will help allow access to data only if authorized personnel submit requests to their respective superiors. Similar access controls help prevent corporate espionage actors from entering IT systems and compromising sensitive business intelligence. 

The policies developed should be flexible. After all, you will need to modify business governance frameworks. Otherwise, you cannot keep up with the regulators’ amendments to applicable laws. 

3. Focus on Data Quality and Integrity 

Ensuring data quality and integrity is very fundamental to data governance. Remember, inaccurate data leads to poor decisions. It inevitably results in misaligned strategies, causing inefficiencies in business activities. Therefore, data validation rules must be implemented. You want to encourage regular integrity audits based on those rules. Furthermore, adequate data cleansing practices will help ensure businesses’ dataset accuracy and reliability. 

Consider data stewardship programs. It involves a competent individual or a team assuming responsibility for the quality of specific data assets. 

4. Leverage Technology for Scalability and Automation 

Data management can be enhanced by using modern technologies. Newer data governance platforms, artificial intelligence, and automation tools will aid you in improving governance compliance. These technologies will, therefore, make it easier to automate the tracking of data changes. Many tools also enforce governance policies. So, users can bypass the manual work of optimizing data protection measures based on the organization’s growth. 

Conclusion 

Building a strong data governance framework will demand definite objectives. Leaders will want to develop cross-functional collaborative environments to promote data ethics and integrity policies. 

Accordingly, the best compliance assurance practices involve defining data ownership, ensuring data quality, and using novel technology. These measures would help organizations protect their data assets. Their superior compliance levels also make them attractive to more investors. 

A robust data governance framework and compliance strategy does not just mitigate risk. Rather, it would deliver strategic success while respecting regulatory and consumer values concerning privacy. 

[elbiotipo]

The most absurd thing about all this bullshit is that all my data is going towards selling me things I don't want or I can't buy. Tech companies have built the world's most sophisticated and complex surveillance system, effectively trapping billions of people into a panopticon and consuming wasteful amounts of resources, technology and human work and talent, all just to sell ads. It's incredibly absurd.

[flying-cat]

no need to ban tiktok if meta is buying it. i'll just delete it myself lmfao

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket

[orcelito]

Being in a data governance class makes it so weird to watch the shit that tech giants are continuously pulling. I see them mass data scraping for AI training and I'm like. But Wait. What about GDPR??? Hello??? User privacy and right to access/correct/delete??? I know that's an EU thing but other places have their own data protection acts too!!! And they're pulling these moves that communicate such flagrant disrespect and irresponsibility for the handling of user data.

In the IT courses I've taken, they've taught us something that's really stuck with me: "Just because we can doesn't mean we should."

My data governance professor keeps emphasizing that as IT personnel, we will need to have a much higher sense of integrity than most other fields bc we have access to SO MUCH SHIT. IT and tech industries are so under-regulated bc of how relatively new it all is and how slow the law moves. But people in charge of handling user data should keep in mind that this is data about Real People, and capitalizing off of it is a violation of privacy.

But tech giants don't care. They'll keep poking and prodding, trying to capitalize off of users' data in order to earn as much money as they can. Data regulations like GDPR exist, but they don't cover everyone, and tech giants are more of "Do First, ask forgiveness later". Or in this case, pay the fines later. Bc if they violate GDPR, they Will be paying fines. And maybe they'll even change the way they handle the data... for EU citizens.

The rest of us are fucked tho. Tech giants really don't care. They just view us as assets to profit off of.

[nando161mando]

The FTC's latest investigation found giant tech companies collect way more data than users expect and share it widely without oversight. Federal privacy legislation is long overdue.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/ftc-report-confirms-commercial-surveillance-out-control

[srldesigns6277]

Why is it that whenever I wish to scream, I am at work?

[st5lker]

soooo sad because thats an artist whose art i really like! but they have shit idiot brain fungus.

wait are you talking abt the ai person its hard to tell when u sent this sorry 😭 if you are then yeah i feel like generally sensible people often fall into this like really dumb fearmongering when it comes to ai and its just like i get it to an extent im not like an ai defender but people just shut their brains off and dont want to hear any nuance on the topic at all its kind of wild

[friendrat]

But I don't wanna live in a dystopian world!!!

[aizenat]

Anyway, glad our government got something right and is working to ban tik tok.

[conkreetmonkey]

Recently stumbled across this remnant of a trend in my meme folder and I do not remember making this at all

[awkward-teabag]

People have already noted the planes flying in the airspace, too. Not steady streams of caravans that would stand out but planes registered to the US with either no flight plan or one from the US to Guantanamo air port. Last I checked, Guantanamo was not a major tourist destination or popular enough to use jets like the Boeing 737 on, especially when there's multiple other airports nearby with better runways.

Also the US still has an embargo against Cuba, which includes travel, so it stands out when multiple large flights registered to the US and departing from the US list a postage stamp-sized military base as the destination.

There's certainly some legitimate flights mixed in there but it's hella suspicious when someone talks about shipping certain people to Gitmo and suddenly there's multiple chartered flights with passenger jets going from the US to the infamous base every other day.

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

[vague-humanoid]

At the California Institute of the Arts, it all started with a videoconference between the registrar’s office and a nonprofit.

One of the nonprofit’s representatives had enabled an AI note-taking tool from Read AI. At the end of the meeting, it emailed a summary to all attendees, said Allan Chen, the institute’s chief technology officer. They could have a copy of the notes, if they wanted — they just needed to create their own account.

Next thing Chen knew, Read AI’s bot had popped up inabout a dozen of his meetings over a one-week span. It was in one-on-one check-ins. Project meetings. “Everything.”

The spread “was very aggressive,” recalled Chen, who also serves as vice president for institute technology. And it “took us by surprise.”

The scenariounderscores a growing challenge for colleges: Tech adoption and experimentation among students, faculty, and staff — especially as it pertains to AI — are outpacing institutions’ governance of these technologies and may even violate their data-privacy and security policies.

That has been the case with note-taking tools from companies including Read AI, Otter.ai, and Fireflies.ai.They can integrate with platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teamsto provide live transcriptions, meeting summaries, audio and video recordings, and other services.

Higher-ed interest in these products isn’t surprising.For those bogged down with virtual rendezvouses, a tool that can ingest long, winding conversations and spit outkey takeaways and action items is alluring. These services can also aid people with disabilities, including those who are deaf.

But the tools can quickly propagate unchecked across a university. They can auto-join any virtual meetings on a user’s calendar — even if that person is not in attendance. And that’s a concern, administrators say, if it means third-party productsthat an institution hasn’t reviewedmay be capturing and analyzing personal information, proprietary material, or confidential communications.

“What keeps me up at night is the ability for individual users to do things that are very powerful, but they don’t realize what they’re doing,” Chen said. “You may not realize you’re opening a can of worms.“

The Chronicle documented both individual and universitywide instances of this trend. At Tidewater Community College, in Virginia, Heather Brown, an instructional designer, unwittingly gave Otter.ai’s tool access to her calendar, and it joined a Faculty Senate meeting she didn’t end up attending. “One of our [associate vice presidents] reached out to inform me,” she wrote in a message. “I was mortified!”

[orcelito]

Worst thing about having taken business classes is that I see people complain about bullshit companies are pulling and a part of my brain goes "Oh, that's an effective tactic for cost reduction" or something around those lines. And then the part of my brain that is Not a wannabe businessman is just like "Bro."

[evitcani-writes]

“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

UPDATE/EDIT: Article is from July. I didn’t notice myself since it came up in my news feed. Don’t always trust the internet to be time accurate. 😎My guess is it is getting promoted due to current events. However, there are some updates concerning actions taken based on the report which you can look into by checking the authors’ other articles.