And we're working with the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health and the BioCompute Consortium to support industry standards for data access, discovery, and cloud computation.
Standard metrics for airborne topographic lidar are important to enable objective and quantitative evaluation of lidar systems and data, evaluation and comparison of emerging technologies, and specification of industry norms for data quality.
In parallel, they are also building their own private clouds or leveraging dedicated resources at a hosting provider for sensitive data like customer credit card data, which must comply with PCI (payment card industry) regulations for data security.
Creating an industry standard for data portability could force companies to compete on utility instead of being protected by data lock-in that traps users because it's tough to switch services.
Case-in-point, network equipment vendors have a responsibility to deploy solutions that are secure and uphold industry standards for data protection and integrity such as the Network Equipment Security Scheme NESAA) spearheaded by the GSMA and 3GPP.
But, the venture opportunity with HR tech will grow over time, fueled by social pressures, by industry need for data and efficiency, and to rise above in a competition for top talent.
Of course, as Johns Hopkins professor Thomas Rid pointed out on Twitter, Facebook "likely has *extraordinary* telemetry," referring to an industry term for data about cyberattacks.
As this practice becomes more prevalent, we anticipate the emergence of a vibrant information marketplace industry for commercial data assets.
The mistakes that Facebook revealed last year seem relatively minor, but collectively, they probably have added momentum to calls from the ad industry for better data from Facebook, as well as more third-party verification of that data.
