The Project Alesia Podcast: Recent Episodes
Project Alesia
A podcast dedicated to issues in data privacy, ethical data engineering, responsible machine learning and more. Visit us at https://projectalesia.com/
Has the value of data inflated? Is regulatory compliance like GDPR working? What exactly is data engineering and what role do data engineers play in driving meaningful change in the data ecosystem? In this episode we delve into these complex questions with our industry veteran guests, Hussein Danish - Senior Data Engineer at Spotify, and David Lum - Data & Ops Engineer at Samsung.
Omer Khan is a Senior Security Engineer at SSENSE and a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum. In his free, time he mentors students and hunts for cybersecurity bounties. In this episode, we pick his brain on understanding the state of cybersecurity today and its relationship with the growing big data industry. We also talk about how professionals in data science, engineering, and policy-making can leverage their domain-expertise to contribute to the cybersecurity front.
This podcast is an extended discussion of the article 'Who's Paying for All This Free Stuff?'. We discuss how seemingly free products and services are monetized online, and how internet users can benefit from 'free' software while avoid its common pitfalls.