Featured Integrate and enforce data access policies in dbt with PACE Our Policy As Code Engine for defining access policies simply in a YAML can now run natively inside dbt. Still free, still great. This is how you do it.
Why Data Protection is a responsibility to yourself Someone else's data breach is a risk to your own security. Here's why you should care for Data Protection even if you don't.
The missing piece in enforcing access policies on Google BigQuery By Bob van den Hoogen, engineer @ STRM. In any modern data context, especially within large organizations, managing access to sensitive data like employee salaries is critical. Getting it wrong proves costly in one of two ways, either data is controlled too restrictively causing missed potential value, or permissions are too
Adding telemetry to our CLI: a tech deep dive into combining insight with privacy. By Robin Trietsch, engineer @ STRM. The CLI is a critical part of the developer experience. Often, it's the first interface for developers to interact with your product. However, with Open Source products, it's difficult to know if and how end-users are using your product. Even though
News Featured Getting to Yes in Data 💡Time spent on getting data is not spent on creating value from it. Getting to data carries a lot of hidden costs distributed across teams and functions. Notably, these costs are in coordination, queueing effects and configuration, creating significant direct (>€10K per request) and considerable opportunity costs. With PACE
MtG Phoenix edition: your identity is in Apple's compote Hello dear reader, It's been a while since you've received our "weekly" content update. I take full credit for that - there's tons of relevant news and developments in privacy every week, but I underestimated the effort involved with providing background to
Release Featured STRM in AWS: privacy infra as a one-click install 💡We're now available as a packaged install on AWS. Here's why that's a necessary step for privacy. Today, we've announced (press release) our availability in AWS marketplace. Combined with some recent insights from the RISK conference in London last week, I want
Featured On data contracts 👓 Oops, we did it. We're chiming in on the data contracts discussion. That makes this edition of Mind the Gap a bit more data- and tech focused than you're used to. Read along for our note on how the discussion around Data Contracts might be missing
🗞 Welcome back to Mind the Gap! On Lava lamps, data lakes, and PET's. Welcome back to Mind the Gap 👋. Time to pick up where we left it before we took a summer siësta. Our team just got back from Basel to talk privacy in intelligent health applications (spoiler: that starts with data!). Privacy over summer was just as hot as the temperatures, so
🧚♂️ Disney's data business, how cookies were baked 🍪 and Privacy as a Spotify playlist 🥁 👋 Hello! Busy week over at STRM HQ! Lots of privacy, and lots of engineering (we're now deployable through AWS directly!). Jumping right in, Mind the Gap#7 has an inside view of the data economy through the eyes of Disney and a cool story about how cookies (those
Mind the Gap on Privacy and... unbundling Google Analytics, Beyoncé and the Data Mesh. 👋 Hello! When we started Mind the Gap, our promise was to deliver a few items to wonder and ponder about privacy and (data) engineering and how to bring them closer together. Today's episode does just that, but with a bit more background than usual as some Big Questions
I bought a new TV and it's ridiculously hungry for my data. 👋 Hello! I must admit: we skipped a beat. This week's Mind the Gap comes a few days late. My excuse: I just bought a TV and tried to fix some privacy issues it introduced. That turned out to be quite the task. More on that below. (Also, the
Mind the Gap ... between privacy laws killing your data pipelines, visiting IAPP and how HTTP is privacy's nemesis New week, new showdown! And once again it was an interesting week for navigating the stormy waters between Privacy Island and Engineering Peninsula. 🗺 Today's core idea: the fabric of the internet is privacy's main issue It must have been some 12 years ago when I visited
Mind the Gap ep3: 🕹 On privacy policies as a video game and ditching 3rd party tracking 🚮 Hello "There" 👋! Welcome to Mind the Gap #3, on world bicycle day 🚴♀️! This time we'll dive into some interesting examples of companies that are finding (technical) solutions to minding the gap between legal and data. I referred to World Bicycle Day because we're Dutch
🎂 GDPaRty time, DuckDuckGone and Google introduces symmetrical consent 👋 Hello, again! Welcome to this second episode of Mind The Gap. Which is already a special one, because it was birthday week for GDPR! 🎂 That meant we read tons of content on privacy from both technical and policy perspectives: Our birthday boy (they/them) is still attracting mixed reactions, DuckDuckGo
News Please, Mind the Gap between privacy and engineering 👋 Hello, Welcome to this first episode of Mind The Gap! Mind The Gap is our new weekly newsletter, where we share our reading and thinking on the world of privacy and (data) engineering. STRM was founded on the observation there is still a large gap between privacy from a legal
Seeding privacy and security by design for data My first introduction with privacy in data was the implementation of GPDR at bol.com, NL's largest e-commerce marketplace. I vividly remember being in a room full of executives, product and legal professionals. It was some 7 weeks before GDPR in Europe would come into effect and the
