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• Who's tracking you? Facebook users to get more control over data

  The social media site said if a user clears their off-Facebook activity, Facebook would remove the user's identifying information from the data that apps and websites choose to send.

• 'Five Eyes' security alliance calls for access to encrypted material

  The US-led "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance said on Tuesday that tech firms must allow law enforcement agencies access to encrypted material, warning that failing to do so puts people at risk.​

• SAS’s CEO-in-waiting lays out company's AI-driven future

  The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company’s strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning.

• The self-service analytics market convergence is upon us

  Just a week after Google Cloud acquired analytics software company Looker for US$2.6 billion, Salesforce acquired Tableau for US$15.7 billion.

• ASX eyes growth from new data analytics platform offering

  ASX Limited, which operates the Australian Securities Exchange, is rolling out a data analytics platform to give its customers “access to data science and machine learning capabilities”.

• Augmented analytics: The future of data and analytics

  As the core of any digital business, analytics is at a critical inflection point. Data complexity is increasing and business people across the enterprise are drowning in data. They’re struggling to identify what’s most important and the best actions to take.

• Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson talks Hortonworks merger, future of big data

  According to Mike Olson, the merger will not "fundamentally" change how he thinks about the industry and where it is headed.

• Tibco Software unveils ‘Tibco Labs’

  Tibco Software has made a swag of announcements at Tibco Now 2018, its annual conference in Las Vegas.

• Don’t worry, world-leading AI expert doesn’t know what AI is either

  ​“On any shortlist I’m considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on applied artificial intelligence,” said JT Kostman at a NetApp breakfast in Sydney yesterday.

• Early wins for OnePath's AI insurance underwriting project

  ​ANZ bank's insurance arm OnePath Life Insurance today revealed some early wins for its project with researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) which uses machine learning models and advanced analytics to improve the insurance underwriting process.

• Mobile monitoring and machine learning unlock the mathematics of memories

  ​Everyone remembers where they were when they first learned two planes had struck the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, but what did you have for dinner on the second Tuesday of last month?

• ANZ Wealth exploring AI for insurance underwriting

  ANZ Wealth is collaborating with researchers at the University of Technology Sydney to explore how machine learning models can improve the insurance underwriting process.

• Cultural change is necessary for analytics adoption

  The role of analytics is becoming an integral part of enterprise operations across every industry, but many companies are having to overcome internal change barriers to fully realise their return on analytics investments.

• IAG saves millions with OpenStack

  Open source software and open source inspired approaches to development and innovation are set to play an increasingly large role in the future of ASX-listed insurance group IAG.

• Victoria Police eye data analytics to reduce criminal informant risk

  Despite the extensive digital footprints left behind by even the most cautious criminals, sometimes social media records, IP addresses and metadata offer police scant clues about planned crimes.