This Newsweek article, originally published in Newsweek’s opinion section and excerpted here, resulted from the author’s research for a new extended sidebar on the topic that will appear in the forthcoming Revised and Updated, paperback edition of Eric Siegel’s Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die (coming January 6, 2016). Preorder
Privacy by Design, an outlook toward software development developed in the 1990s, urges companies to bake privacy protection features into its analytic systems and processes from their conception. While many executives have supported the notion of anonymizing...
The economic changes of the past five years have had a major impact on the collections industry. Collectors traditionally viewed customers in black-and-white classifications of having either “good credit” or “bad credit.” As the economy declined, the...
