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#DigitalID #ID #Privacy It's not who you are. It’s what you’re allowed to do @dez_blanchfield @robmay70 @NigelTozer @Corix_JC @1DavidClarke @AkwyZ @ChuckDBrooks @PVynckier @RobertJBateman @CyberSecurityRI @KirkDBorne @SpirosMargaris @antgrasso @sallyeaves @katieeking

@dez_blanchfield @andrewprobyn The Aussies were on the warship doing the killing, not the one that got killed

EXCLUSIVE Two Australian sailors were on board the US nuclear-powered submarine that sank an Iranian warship with a torpedo yesterday. 9news.com.au/world/us-israe…

@BillMew @robmay70 @Corix_JC @AkwyZ The shift to #DigitalSovereignty at MWC26 shows where real challenges lie in AI. Smart move.

"#Sovereignty" was the word echoing through every halls at #MWC26 Not #5g or devices. Not chips, architectures, data platforms, or interoperable ecosystems. The enterprise #AI conversation has fundamentally shifted #DigitalSovereignty #DataGovernance @robmay70 @Corix_JC @AkwyZ

🚨BREAKING: Stanford found that most big AI companies use your private chats to train their models by default. They analyzed the privacy policies of OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon. The findings are wild. All 6 companies train on your chat data by default. No real consent. No clear opt-out. No meaningful transparency. Here's what they actually found: Amazon's privacy policy doesn't even mention AI training they just quietly include a notice in the chat interface. Meta and Google offer zero clear opt-out routes. OpenAI, Amazon, and Meta retain some chat data indefinitely your conversations never die. 4 of the 6 companies appear to train on children's chat data. Contract workers reviewing Meta chats could identify specific users by name from the transcripts. The wildest part?Enterprise users are opted OUT of training by default. Regular users are opted IN. Two-tiered privacy businesses get protection, you don't. Anthropic was the last holdout with opt-in training. They switched to opt-out in September 2025. Now all 6 are the same. The paper calls it "guiltshaming" OpenAI literally frames data collection as "improve the model for everyone" to psychologically pressure you into compliance. This is the privacy crisis nobody is talking about. Paper: "User Privacy and Large Language Models" Stanford University, September 2025. Link in first comment.

BREAKING: CNN just played a montage of Trump officials saying America is at “war” while GOP lawmakers try to explain that America is not at war. There is no coherent messaging or strategy.

Open-source #LLMs now run on a 16GB laptop For #GDPR-constrained teams in the EU: you no longer need a cloud API to get frontier #AI performance. #DataSovereignty just got a lot cheaper to achieve #GDPR #CloudSovereignty @dez_blanchfield @robmay70 @Corix_JC @1DavidClarke @AkwyZ

➡️Centralized governance = compliance bottleneck ➡️Decentralized with central standards = adoption at scale Give teams ownership Meta-lesson from every major enterprise case study: distribute responsibility, centralize frameworks #AIGovernance #CloudGovernance @dez_blanchfield

EU #AI Act enforcement: June 2026: Most financial institutions are 3 months behind on compliance. If you haven't started risk assessments yet, yesterday was the right time. Today works too. Move fast #AIGovernance #AIACT #Compliance @antgrasso @sallyeaves @katieeking @AkwyZ

@BillMew @dez_blanchfield @SpirosMargaris @antgrasso @sallyeaves @katieeking Preach. Audit trails first, fancy models second. Skip the boring work and watch it all break.

Oracle just told every AI company on earth the same thing. Your models are worthless. Not the technology, talent or the billions spent training them. But the data they were trained on. Larry Ellison, the man who built Oracle into the backbone of global enterprise just dropped a bombshell. He said ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, all of them are training on the exact same data.​ The entire public internet, every Wikipedia page, Reddit thread and every news article. That means they're all converging essentially becoming the same product with different logos.​ Ellison's word for it is commodities. But here's where it gets dangerous. He says the real gold isn't public data, It's private data.​ The medical records in hospital systems, the financial data in bank vaults. The supply chain secrets of every Fortune 500 and guess where most of that data already lives. Not Google, Amazon or Microsoft but inside Oracle.​ Oracle databases hold most of the world's high value private enterprise data. So Oracle just launched something called AI Database 26ai.​ It lets the top AI models, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Llama reason directly over a company's private data, without that data ever leaving the vault.​ They're using a technique called RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation. The AI doesn't train on your data, it searches it in real time.​ Think about what that means. A bank could ask AI to analyze every loan it's ever made without exposing a single customer record. A hospital could have AI diagnose patients using its full medical history without violating HIPAA.​ A defense contractor could let AI reason across classified operations without data leaving a secure environment.​ Ellison is betting this is bigger than the training market. Bigger than the GPU boom. Bigger than the data center buildout.​ He called it the largest and fastest growing market in history.​ The numbers back the ambition. Oracle's remaining performance obligations just hit $523 billion. That's contracted revenue not yet delivered and $300 billion of it comes from OpenAI alone.​ Cloud revenue hit $8 billion in a single quarter, OCI grew 66 percent and GPU revenue surged 177 percent.​ But here's the part nobody's talking about. If private data becomes the real AI moat, then whoever controls the database controls the future of AI.​ And that's a level of power that should make everyone uncomfortable.

40% of #AI #governance failures trace back to model monitoring gaps Your compliance framework is only as strong as your audit trails. Invest there first. Everything else follows #CloudAI #MLOps #ResponsibleAI @dez_blanchfield @SpirosMargaris @antgrasso @sallyeaves @katieeking

Who will be the first #CIO fired for #AI agent havoc? buff.ly/Ann8Q98 #tech #digital #innovation #business #leadership #management #governance #AgenticAI #CTO #CDO #CEO #digitaltransformation #AIstrategy #digitalstrategy #AIrisks @CIOonline @GrantGross @BetaMoroney @ChuckDBrooks @MikeFlache @Khulood_Almani @IngridVasiliu @JonBelsher @Timothy_Hughes @NafisAlam @YuHelenYu @RLDI_Lamy @MCLynd @OlKonol_oa @RigneySec @BenRothke @HWillert @AndrewinContact @TerenceLeungSF @Shi4Tech @enilev @Nicochan33 @SabineVdL @bimedotcom @IanLJones98 @FrRonconi @RiccardoBua @Eli_Krumova @NYIke @HaroldSinnott @SallyEaves @GlobalIQX @AntGrasso @AkwyZ @DinisGuarda @PVynckier @YvesMulkers @HaleChris @BillMew @RobMay70 @NigelTozer @m49D4ch3lly @Ronald_vanLoon @jeancayeux @NevilleGaunt @asokan_telecom @cybersecboardrm @RVP @QuePasaChico

'@SolarWinds: Have we learned the lessons from the largest ever cyber attack? @BillMew @AccountingWEBuk bit.ly/3sUpvb6   @fabriziobustama @robmay70 @IanLJones98 @NigelTozer @yuhelenyu @AkwyZ @TylerCohenWood @pettet50 @DT @dez_blanchfield

Blog: Fifteen Shades of #Cybersecurity Grey @BillMew for @Commvault  bit.ly/3ERCvAO   @fabriziobustama @robmay70 @IanLJones98 @NigelTozer @antgrasso @sallyeaves @archonsec @yuhelenyu @AkwyZ @TylerCohenWood @pettet50 #CommvaultInfluencer @DT

Cybersecurity Maturity – moving beyond ABC   As part of the #MIT series: "The cloud hub: From #cloud chaos to clarity" @VishalSalvi & @BillMew offer #Cybersecurity predictions for 2022  @Infosys @techreview buff.ly/3fKG4hX   @robmay70 @akwyz @dez_blanchfield @rwang0 @DT

Expensive Lessons in Data Protection: Inside Croatia’s 2025 GDPR Enforcement Actions cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/202… Cc: @BillMew @robmay70 @NigelTozer @ChuckDBrooks @m49D4ch3lly @DT @archonsec @clarinette01 @JBarbosaPR @AshokNellikar @MHcommunicate @Khulood_Almani @Miriam_Brown979

Why your #AI agents need a #trust layer before it’s too late buff.ly/0I9pscv #tech #digital #innovation #business #leadership #governance #AgenticAI #CEO #CIO #CDO #CEO #CFO #digitaltransformation #AIstrategy #digitalstrategy @InfoWorld @AkshayMittal143 @BetaMoroney @ChuckDBrooks @MikeFlache @Khulood_Almani @IngridVasiliu @JonBelsher @Timothy_Hughes @NafisAlam @YuHelenYu @RLDI_Lamy @MCLynd @OlKonol_oa @RigneySec @BenRothke @HWillert @AndrewinContact @TerenceLeungSF @Shi4Tech @enilev @Nicochan33 @SabineVdL @bimedotcom @IanLJones98 @FrRonconi @RiccardoBua @Eli_Krumova @NYIke @HaroldSinnott @SallyEaves @GlobalIQX @AntGrasso @AkwyZ @DinisGuarda @PVynckier @YvesMulkers @HaleChris @BillMew @RobMay70 @NigelTozer @m49D4ch3lly @Ronald_vanLoon @jeancayeux @NevilleGaunt @asokan_telecom @cybersecboardrm @RVP @QuePasaChico

Third-Party Risk: Be careful who you play with, says @BillMew, @AccountingWEBuk  #SupplyChain #CyberSecurity bit.ly/32Tdec1   @fabriziobustama @robmay70 @IanLJones98 @NigelTozer @yuhelenyu @AkwyZ @TylerCohenWood @pettet50 @DT @dez_blanchfield @IanMCalvert

ICO updates guidance on international transfers | Scottish Legal News scottishlegal.com/articles/ico-u… Cc: @BillMew @robmay70 @NigelTozer @ChuckDBrooks @m49D4ch3lly @DT @archonsec @clarinette01 @JBarbosaPR @AshokNellikar @MHcommunicate @Khulood_Almani @Miriam_Brown979