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A Friendly Guide to Data Science: Everything You Should Know About the Hottest Field in Tech

Name: A Friendly Guide to Data Science: Everything You Should Know About the Hottest Field in Tech
Author: Kelly P. Vincent
ISBN: 9798868811692

by Kelly P. Vincent

June 2025

Beginner

901 pages

19h 58m

English

Apress

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K. P. VincentA Friendly Guide to Data ScienceFriendly Guides to Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1169-2_8

8. Keeping Everyone Safe: Data Security and Privacy

Kelly P. Vincent¹

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Renton, WA, USA

Introduction

We’ve all heard the horror stories from major companies of data breaches, ransomware, or other incidents involving data being compromised. These things often happen because of human error somewhere along the way, but hackers and scammers are getting more and more sophisticated every day. Truthfully, most humans aren’t that good at being careful, and it’s more difficult than it should be to accomplish everything we need to do to keep data and ...

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