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Privacy Protection Policy for Big Data Analytics in the Malaysian Telecommunications Sector

Chua, Hui Na; Chang, Younghoon; Wong, Siew Fan; Tan, … - 2015

The telecommunications sector has accessed to large amount of data. When use effectively, this Big Data enables the telcos to achieve efficiency and profitability across the entire telecommunications value chain. However, the potential advantage of Big Data may be tempered by increasing privacy...

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Big data analytics, the social graph, and unjust algorithmic discrimination: Tensions between privacy and open data

Winter, Jenifer Sunrise - 2015

of Things and big data analytics. Governmental and corporate entities have focused on creating sophisticated graphs of … analytics may disadvantage certain individuals or groups. On the other hand, big data analytics has immense potential to enhance …, reidentification, and subsequent informational harms. The algorithms and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication employed in big data …

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Data Quality to Further Philanthropy's Mission

Shapiro, Daniel; Cody, Scott - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015

Corporate philanthropy has a dual mission of pursuing public welfare and supporting the values of parent corporations. Assessing the alignment of philanthropic activities with these missions can be challenging, but todayâ€™s data-rich environment provides prospects for meeting that...

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Using Benford¡¯s Law for Fraud Detection in Accounting Practices

Asllani, Arben; Naco, Manjola - In: Journal of Social Science Studies 2 (2015) 1, pp. 129-143

This paper offers a template that can be used by practitioners and accounting auditors to identify fraud in accounting practices. The proposed tool is based on the principles of Benford's Law. An actual example from a local Albanian hospital is used to demonstrate the use of the proposed...

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