#data-retention

#data-retention

If you're embarrassed every time you have to hand over that Gmail address you came up with in 2006, you're in luck. Google is finally allowing users to change their Gmail username without creating an entirely new account. The update will allow you to edit your email address to any that isn't taken. Until now, Google only offered the option to create an alternate email and forward your mail to a new @gmail.com address.

A Freedom of Information request submitted by Hyphen to the Home Office revealed that children aged between two to five were referred a further 500 times between 2016-27 to 2023-24. Nearly half (46 per cent) of the Prevent referrals for children under the age of 10 during this period were for Islamist concerns, with the figure jumping to 70 per cent for under three-year-olds.

That's the intention of a change in federal policy that has its origins in a 2020 proposal. According to the Department of Homeland Security's final version of the rule, "DHS may require all aliens to be photographed when entering or exiting the United States, and may require non-exempt aliens to provide other biometrics." Specifically, the system will involve facial recognition software, which the DHS plans to use in conjunction with traveler information provided by airlines.

Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has apologised after investigations by an independent reviewer, Angus McCullough KC, revealed that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) retained copies of the data on its computer system more than six years after it should have been deleted under a court agreement. Boutcher commissioned McCullough to carry out an independent review - which is due to report this week - into allegations that the PSNI had placed journalists, lawyers and non-government organisations under unlawful surveillance.

Over a quarter of data and analytics professionals worldwide estimate that poor-quality data costs companies over $5 million annually, with 7% putting the figure at $25 million or more.

Amazon S3 lifecycle rules, while promising, often lead to messy and expensive data management due to their one-size-fits-all, timer-based approach.

Short-term storage requires high granularity for timely troubleshooting (7-30 days), while long-term storage utilizes S3 or Glacier for compliance and historical analysis.