DO NOT PUT YOUR DANG DATA ON YOUR DANG WEBSITE. FFS.

Spoilers: they're not. Default passwords on gadgetry like copiers/printers/scanners is a weak point for network attacks.

Nice real-world example of how to think through ethics of data release.

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

The difference between encryption and security.

This document is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) plan for establishing a policy for public access to scientific publications and scientific data in digital format resulting from AHRQ funding.

The law has long treated educational information as a category worthy of special protections, like credit or medical records, but the reality is often different.

The Institute of Medicine takes a step in the right direction but we should move even faster  The Institute of Medicine (IOM), a venerable American institution that seeks to provide authoritative recommendations to decision makers and the public, released a report last month on Sharing Clinical Trial Data .1 The report is a welcome codification of guiding principles and frameworks. It reinforces many arguments for data sharing and urges that stakeholders “should foster a culture in which data sharing is the expected norm.”1 The IOM joins many other organizations, including drug companies,2 3 the European Medicines Agency,4 the National Institutes of Health,5 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,6 in making clear that study reporting and data sharing in medical research are imperative and the questions ahead are how, not whether.  The general support for data sharing in the IOM document will be familiar to The BMJ ’s readers, as this journal has long advocated the importance of transparency in scientific research and the need to report results and share data.7 The report provides what should be easily achievable recommendations for the research community. The committee called for data sharing only for new trials, though it urged consideration of sharing older studies. It stated that 18 months could elapse …

News and information related to research data management provided by the University of Washington Libraries.

Experts say Anthem customers should be wary of potential "piggyback" attacks.

Don't believe every number that you encounter.

Date/store/location/rough cost metadata from four credit-card purchases identifies 90% of credit-card holders in a deidentified dataset.

As the need for research data management grows, many libraries are considering adding data services to help with the research mission of their institution. The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries created a position and hired a director of research data management in September 2013. The position was new to the libraries and the university. With the backing of the library administration, a plan for building relationships with VCU faculty, researchers, students, service and resource providers, including grant administrators, was developed to educate and engage the community in data management plan writing and research data management training.

DATA SUPPORT OPEN Training Module 1.4 Introduction to metadata management PwC firms help organisations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We…