Syed M.Kumail
It is estimated that by year 2025, individuals and businesses alike will produce about 463 exabytes of data per day globally and there will be an estimated 175 zettabytes of data in the global data-sphere Businesses use data for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to analyzing customer behaviour, providing relevant ads, customer centric product trends and analyzing market value. Thus today data is imperative to a business.
As a result most companies are increasingly focusing on their data policies, individuals and businesses are increasingly concerned about ethics surrounding data and privacy laws. But even as these laws emerge, the time taken to comply with these laws officially or unofficially is not very promising.
In fact, in a report recently (link) it was disclosed that it takes companies about 62 days to discover a high severity data breach and another 71 days to disclose the said breach. Thus, purely relying on a business to do the right thing when it comes to data breaches and data privacy ethics is not enough.
Kuber Signal is a company that wants companies to be held accountable/responsible by the individual for their data related decisions. The company quantifies privacy policies for other companies into a standard 4-point metric and a final Goodness score that’s comparable across board and then shows these scores to the individual so they can decide what companies keep their data safe.
The metrics are:1. Personal Data Privacy Goodness Score, 2. Behavioral Data Privacy Goodness Score, 3. Technical Data Privacy Goodness Score, 4. Data Sharing Goodness Score Each metric measures how much of an individual data is stored, used and shared by the Company, that individual is a customer of the company then shows what companies in the same industry, selling the same product, rank higher than the individual’s company of choice.
