‘I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it,’ said Clint Eastwood. Data sharing online is a minefield as Richard Myers discusses in this guest blog post.

If it’s not fending off hackers, it’s complying with security regulations or checking that the binding corporate rules are in harmony with data protection requirements in all locations of the company’s global offices.

And this is without the explosion of big data as a business reality to be managed and contended with.

The important thing in all of this is to understand that dealing with these challenges is simply the price of doing business online. And to help give you a panoramic view of the online landscape, this blog post will quickly spotlight some articles and resources that delve into the good, the bad, and the downright ugly aspects of data sharing online.

How much data is shared each minute? 

It’s astounding the amount of data being shared around the world every single second. To illustrate this, business intelligence firm Domo created this infographic.

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