of the data transfers. in some cases like the sheriff's jail management system, the interaction is near rail time. other end of the spectrum, a few, once per day transfers happen or occur in batch. the district attorney system, we have a once per day, one direction only interface. some of the departments including the district attorney's office is seeking replacements to their system and with that replacement i anticipate a more realtime sheriff-like interaction with justice and the rest of the criminal justice partners. currently the slowest part of the entire data transfer mechanism is the interface between justice and the mainframe. we have a limited interface method. that limits us to a serialized interaction with the mainframe so we, justice, is on hold essentially in transferring data while the mainframe processes that data and sends it back to justice before then we can send it the next transactions. in december of 2009, 3 systems came on line to production. sheriff's jail management system, the justi

so to protect the data we do not meet those expectations. we are committed to working with consumers and congress and the regulators to restore public trust. this has been my focus with the first six weeksks as ceo and every day. thank you for your attention and i welcome your questions. >> chairman and ranking member and honorable members of the committee i submitted my written testimony to this committee as well as others in the senate in the house and the written testimony goes into the record of the events when the breach occurred and i will answer any questions you may have. >> chairman, ranking member nonsense and distinguished members of the committee, things for the opportunity to appear before you today and have the honor of privilege of serving as the yahoo! chief executive officer july 2012 through the sale of june this year. yahoo! is the victim of state-sponsored attacks resulting in the fact that we worked hard over the years and as ceo and want to sincerely apologize to each and every one of our users. when yahoo! learned of th

and now we go to the big data in the financial and business world it's a term that many have heard but how much do we will know about big data with computers and technology data processing is moving fast as a speed of light and capturing and analyzing and even storing all of this big data is that entirely new world and there's a new category of people doing this work with us as one of the foremost data wranglers in the world and that is the founder of penned those systems and c.e.o. pam. pam welcome. hello everyone how are you today fantastic you know it's so dicey to make time i know you're one of the busier people out there going to trade shows etc first of all people have heard this term pam about big data but can you explain it just in the aggregate not just in finance and then move into finance and business. yes absolutely and you know bart i do tend to a lot of trade shows but the purpose of that is to get information and learn and to give you an example the context of big data i sat at a regulatory conference which i know you're very familiar with and within the first fifteen mi

maximum possible accuracy of the data, the companies that furnish data into the credit bureaus are now required to have written policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of that data. the people who furnish the data into the bureaus are all supervised right now. so we do have -- we're not unregulated. we do have this statute and it gets longer every year. and there is more and more duties added to the credit bureaus. >> my question is, what is the current penalty in the event that bad data gets in? despite all the systems in place, is there a penalty that has to be paid by the credit reporting agency? i'm not talking about after the fact. in addition to just bringing the consumer whole. in addition to just bringing the consumer whole. let's say you're a consumer, right? >> right. >> you get denied a loan, then you've got to go through the incredible hassle of getting all this straightened out. at the end of the day, maybe you get your loan, but what can we do to put a deterrent up front so that we never get to the point that thousa

the september 2004 choice point breach was considered to be the first high-profile data breach in the modern era prompted investigations from this committee and state authorities. choice point was a data aggregation company originally as fateby equifax who would have it is represented here today. in terms of the inquiry the major data breaches, we have come full circle. congress and this committee paid close attention to data breaches big and small. the committee has entertained proposals to strengthen requirements for companies across the board and impose federal requirements for companies to notify consumers following discovery of the breach. we are in the air of major data breaches, including equifax and yahoo! that we are examining. the yahoo! breaches are larger, the fx -- equifax breach is more severe given the nature of the data compromised. i have heard many constituents who were concerned about the lasting effects of the equifax breach. i have heard complaints it is difficult to set up a credit freeze and questions about whether credit monitoring is an effective tool to preve

we are in the air of major data -- we are in the era of major data breaches, including equifax and yahoo! that we are examining. the yahoo! breaches are larger, equifax breach is more severe given the nature of the data compromised. i have heard many constituents who were concerned about the lasting effects of the equifax breach. i have heard complaints it is difficult to set up a credit freeze and questions about whether credit monitoring is an effective tool to prevent identity theft. the equifax breach exposed the sensitive personal data of 145.5 million u.s. consumers including the names, social security's, birthdates, addresses cut -- and driver license numbers. 200,000 were affected. equifax will have an opportunity to provide an update regarding the breach as well as it's much criticized efforts to mitigate harm and prevent anything like this from happening. the yahoo! breach compromised over 3 billion user accounts and followed a prior breach in which hackers stole similar information from 500 million users. the data included names, dates of birth, partial passwords, unencrypted

decision that was made to manage the data? --there were multiple deals tools we used to encrypt data, including masking, and firewalls, with multiple layers of encryption. >> it was made to leave it on encrypt at rest? , have youtook over directed company to encrypt such data or have even recommended to? >> we have done a top-down review of our security situation. >> yes or no question. is the data unencrypted at rest? >> i don't know at this stage. >> you don't know? isn't this the reason why it was breached? this data was unencrypted? >> encryption is one form of defense, and we have several forms in place to prevent this from happening. so the data remains unencrypted at rest? we have deployed several different tools and encryption is one tool. >> senator, if i may. this environments of attack is much more complex than before, with multiple layers of security. sickere are other experts, -- privacy experts year, is that a good system? >> i think we have spoken about the value of that, but from our companies perspective -- ben

you have to read the data protection policy when it clearly states that we don't pass the data on it's used internally to develop the app and our services or news are slightly watering be done and. for now it's still in the test phase. whether or not the only bikes can stand up to the competition. only time will tell . the fifth round of nafta talks has come to a close and the three countries involved have yet to resolve any major differences u.s. officials brought up some thorny issues of the me. donald trump made revamping the trade agreement which he called the single worst deal ever approved a key element of his election campaign but throughout negotiations canada and mexico have continued to resist u.s. demands and areas like car manufacturing and agriculture where there is still no sign of a solution the next round of talks will take place in december and other developments involving u.s. trade the united states also slapped import duties of up to seven point two percent on spanish all ifs saying producers in spain benefited from impermissible subsidies on drums government has so

, the weather data or the traffic data or what have you. now, imagine you build the app and you can pull data that the government is already collecting so you can build the app and use the data, and it turns out that you got something that's either good at predicting the weather or helping commuters or helping folks navigate the social service system or whatever and it grows into a business and you can actually employ people. you can put people to work that a project that may have started as a hobby can become your life's work. the evidence-based policymaking and section 2 will help stories like that become a common thing. this gives entrepreneurs and innovators huge amounts of publicly funded data so they can innovate and come up with applications that we haven't even thought of yet. it also means that government agencies can share data more easily and ultimately provide services more effectively and most importantly, it allows citizens to participate in their government by making government more transparent and accountable. mr. speaker, da

critics say the more our personal data is gathered the grace of a threat to our privacy as machines become more advanced how does society keep pace when deciding yet excess and regulations governing technology we find out is steven roberts machine learning professor at the university of oxford talks to al-jazeera . professor stephen roberts thank you for talking to al-jazeera about a fascinating but often confusing subject so perhaps you could start by explaining exactly what these algorithms artificial intelligence and machine learning actually are and how they're involved already in our everyday lives i think most people have heard of algorithms and many will know something about them these are much more traditional ways of solving a problem with a computer and the algorithm is basically a sequence of mathematical steps which are performed inside a piece of software in principle they could be done with a pencil and paper by your are but of course the big problems it's much easier to let a computer do them we critically we designed the steps in a traditional solution in an algorithm so we

the spending. coming up a massive data breach at the details. millions of customers compromised a year ago only now does the company come clean about the hack attack admitting it paid the criminals off to keep them quiet. this is your business update on helen humphrey in berlin thanks for joining me britain's finance minister has lowered his country's five year growth forecast over uncertainty surrounding the u.k.'s exit from the european union philip hammond made at the comments as he unveiled his autumn a budget it includes plans to set aside three billion pounds for briggs it contingency plans the country's decision to quit european union has resulted in a shop full in sterling and an increase in inflation. we asked our financial correspondent connoted was in for his analysis of herman's for exit plans for the poland is not really precise he says he sets aside an extra three billion pounds for bricks and contingency planning and that he wants to ready britain for every possible outcome of the wreck that negotiations this indicates that the go

our top job must need be the entrusted data. and now it's up to us that we need to regain the trust. we are committed to working with consumers, customers, congress and regulators on these issues and restore public trust. this has been my focus as first six weeks as c.e.o. thank you for your attention and elcome your questions. senator thune: mr. smith. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. i submitted my written testimony as well as to other committees in both the senate and the house and i have testified before over the past three, four weeks. that written testimony is the record of the events of the breach at equifax that occurred and i'm here today tore answer any questions you may have. senator thune: thank you, mr. smith. >> chairman thune, ranking member nelson and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i have the honor and privilege of serving as yahoo!'s executive office since 2012. yahoo! is a victim of criminal ta

the better protected we are at consumers. —— presumably bad is good news. there are new datas coming in? from the end of may the legislation comes in across europe including the uk and it will give consumers the right to be forgotten so consumers the right to be forgotten so if we do want data to be removed from a company we can have bad but it also puts an onus on the actual organisation who holds your data to enforce good data security measures around that data and if they don't they will then be fined. as we outlined, they will be fined, uber is likely to be fined quite a bit, how does this work out that the united states, we talk about europe but in the us it's a different story? there could be conflict going forward ? story? there could be conflict going forward? there is potential for conflict, at the moment the us within the us each state has the ability to impose fines, i think ultimately what you see is those fines being imposed by organisations as well as the european fines. the outlook for uber, this happened last year, bad headline after bad headline and millions

for the downloaded data on the fit that july two thousand and sixteen and i came down into sets. two sets of data about forty seconds apiece a total of. eighty seven seconds with the time gap close to twelve minutes between . and. they took down one one thousand nine hundred seventy six megabytes not bits of data which is about sixteen gigabits of data and if you back then in that time of back in two thousand and sixteen our i was buying through the cosco or company sixteen gigabit thumb drives now if you going to download sixteen gigabit it done right this is my my view of it doesn't doesn't mean it's true but if you don't have download sixteen gigabytes of data you don't want to do it on one sixteen gigabit drive because you might lose something so you split the data into parts and take it down into parts or you insert the thumb drive download the first segment take that out put insert the next one find out where you left off and start download the rest of it which it's kind of what happened that's my guess at what happened all i know is it came down sixteen gigabytes of data in

to highlight the role that data plays in the context of public safety. as a principal analyst for the district attorney's office this topic is very near and dear to my heart. i think we can all agree that these are among the most important criminal justice issues facing san francisco today. i think we can also agree as supervisor yee stated that data is essential to addressing and understanding these issues. justis data is an essential tool for effective policy making, also a tool for crime prevention and crime fighting. and yet if you were to ask the public safety departments in san francisco today if we can provide the data to answer these questions, i would say that we can't. we can't answer the question of how law enforcement is addressing quality of life crimes, we don't know how many citations are issued in san francisco, to whom, where, and for what crimes. are we keeping domestic violence victims safe, we don't know. we don't know how many 911 calls for d.v. result in arrest and how many result in prosecution. we currently can't tell you what the

you have to read the data protection policy it clearly states that we don't pass the data on it's used internally to develop the app and our services or news also reporting to. us and. for now it's still in the test phase. whether or not the only bikes can stand up to the competition. only time will tell. britain's finance minister has the an enviable task of trying to relieve the burden of austerity while reducing borrowing and the timing couldn't be with us in his autumn budget on wednesday philip hammond lowered his country's five year growth forecast amid grex of uncertainty the country's decision to quit the european union has resulted in a shop fall in the pound and an increase in inflation now he set aside three billion pounds for bracks at contingency plans. bolivia is rich in natural gas but not all of its resources are being exploited at a time when countries around the world are eyeing natural gas reserves considered clean up fossil fuel and on wednesday but levy assigned a raft of deals with international companies to develop the sector it's one of the biggest gas contracts

business people that know the data but i would tell you i just told one of my friends daughters is a senior at the university that he's studying finance i said you've got one year left take as many data classes as you can to combine those with your financial degree because that is the future all right let's talk about one more thing before we go you and i spoke recently about something that i found totally interesting and it's the combination of unstructured data and artificial intelligence speak about that we've got about a minute left. one minute unstructured data is the fuel that will you know make a i happen. for all of us it's a great shiny object part and it is the future right but in order to get to that future artificial intelligence is not taking unstructured data so we all have to do together start looking at our data from a healthy perspective and in the in the years leading up to true artificial intelligence we have to start structuring that on structured data to be able to fuel what will be truly the next revolution so i believe strongly in ai but

the public and lake city. we typically have not been given more staffing or financial resources to secure data and produce the reports to meet these evolving needs. it is important not just to our pride as professionals but essential to decision-makers that we published only data that we believed to be complete. so this means that we need to spend a great deal of time cleaning the raw data that we get to make sure it is accurate. the richest data product on housing that we produce is called our housing inventory. this year is the 50th anniversary of the housing inventory. so, we're celebrating that important victory. i'm sure you are all remembering 50 years ago today when it was created. in 1967. and watching consistent data sets over time is really important because it helps the city get context for today's changes. this report covers a broad array of housing data you can see from production to affordability levels for both sales and rental prices of new units and with specific info on completed projects. and we'll talk more during the presentation about the importance of this context. now as new flavors of

11s that black stone, one of the biggest richest companies in the world went to to avoid paying uk the dataveals the confidential report by one of the uk's biggest accountancy firms, deloitte. under the codename project genesis they provide a step by step guide tailor—made to help blackstone avoid tax at every stage of the purges of saint enoch. it starts with a deft swerve of £7.6 million in stamp duty made possible by owning the shopping centre through a jersey property trust. jersey is a crown dependency which means it is independent but ultimately the uk is responsible and like several of the uk's overseas territories it is a tax haven. jersey specialises in trusts and there are thousands of them based here. one of the many benefits to holding property in a trust is privacy. it is completely hidden from the public but one of the other main attractions is that they can help companies avoid paying british taxes. the trust we are interested in is operated by something called the st enoch centre trustee company limited which is registered here at appleby‘s jersey operas limited which is reg

we were of the understanding that the surnt data system would be sufficient. my understanding from after we put out the report was that data -- oakland perhaps had tried to use their existing data system and found it not workable. if that is the case, then we'd have to go back and look if the existing data system was sufficient, or if they would need more. >> so would that mean that you would need to reach out to the san francisco police department staff to learn what additional sums would be needed to integrate and link the significant data that would need to be collected through the tazer and other systems we have, such as the existing reporting, sergeant's report, and things like that? >> that's correct. >> how much time do you think you'd need to do that. >> we could look at that next week. in terms of the data that would be available, we'd try to do it next week. >> i want to move onto replacement costs and the sheriff's, i know they travel, but they don't travel as much as police department does, and my understanding is they don't use -- their tazers are

to somewhere in europe for example and when you spoke about wi on the lies the data is that meaning i was reading about an expert forensic aids or is the person who was an allies in the data for you well he was looking at the data yes and so were about five or six other people. and i was looking at the output of that trying to assess that. just to verify and we also tried to test it in the real world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something that would be compatible with that download rate and we could not achieve that either so it had to be done locally there was no substantive evidence anywhere if they could produce some factual evidence that we could look at and analyze fine but so far they produced absolutely nothing this is r.t. international thanks for joining us so far the presidents of russia and america are set to meet inside twenty four was that story after the break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. let you go right

that we as the veteran intelligence fashionables who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from there it was very clear that it was a local download because of the speeds and all i mean we've even tried to transfer data across the atlantic through the web. and see what speeds we could achieve the most we got was like twelve megabytes per second and you needed at least thirty eight megabytes just to pass the data not counting housekeeping so that meant that the capacity was about one fourth the one eight what would be necessary to transfer that data to somewhere in europe for example and when you spoke about we are now lies the data is that meaning i was reading about an expert forensic kater is the person who was analyzing the data for you well he was looking at the data yes and so were about five or six other people. and i was looking at the output of that trying to assess that. just to verify it and we also tried to test it in the real world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something

was like twelve megabytes per second and you needed at least thirty eight megabytes just to pass the data not counting housekeeping so that meant that the capacity was about one fourth the one eight what would be necessary to transfer that data to somewhere in europe for example and when you spoke about we analyze the data is that meaning i was reading about an expert forensic case or is the person who was analyzing the data for you well he was looking at the data yes and so were about five or six other people. and i was looking at the output of that trying to assess that. just to verify and we also tried to test it in the real world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something that would be compatible with that download rate and we could not achieve that either so it had to be done locally there was no substantive evidence anywhere if they could produce some factual evidence that we could look at and analyze find but so far they produced absolutely nothing back in twenty thirteen william binney was a welcome guest on american news channels when he exposed p

to somewhere in europe for example and when you spoke about wi on the lies the data is that meaning i was reading about an expert forensic aids or is it the person who was analyzing the data for you well he was looking at the data yes and so were about five or six other people. and i was looking at the output of that trying to assess that. just to verify and we also tried to test it in the real world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something that would be compatible with that download rate and we could not achieve that either so it had to be done locally there was no substantive evidence anywhere if they could produce some factual evidence that we could look at and analyze find but so far they produced absolutely nothing. thanks for joining us so far here on r.t. the u.s. and the chinese leaders have agreed to work together over the north korea a story and more to the break. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the p