PinnedSteven Renwick·Jan 12, 2023How We Turned the Tables to Catch My Sister’s Bumble stalkerMy sister’s stalker, who had used Instagram and Bumble to work out where she lived and start stalking her in real life, was recently…A response icon42A response icon42
Steven Renwick·1d agoNobody Reads Eleven Million Files. They Query a Graph.In early 2015, an anonymous message reached Bastian Obermayer, a reporter at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Hello. This is John…
Steven Renwick·2d agoThe Day the Government Decided She Was DeadAdrienne Wells Chapman survived congestive heart failure. The record her government kept of her did not, and every system downstream…
Steven Renwick·Jul 8The Morning After the Merger, Nobody Knew Who the Customers WereYou can buy a company’s customers. That is not the same as being able to say who, or how many, they are.
Steven Renwick·Jul 8You Cannot Forget Someone You Cannot FindThe right to be forgotten is celebrated as a victory for privacy. It quietly depends on the one capability privacy campaigners trust least.
InTiloresbySteven Renwick·Jul 3The Same Name Is Not the Same PersonThe machinery meant to catch criminals now runs at machine speed. When it confuses a name for a person, it ruins the innocent and waves…
InTiloresbySteven Renwick·Jul 3The Machine Was Sure It Knew HimFor most of history, a person’s identity was pieced together by other people, who could feel when something did not fit. We have quietly…
InTiloresbySteven Renwick·Jul 1I deduplicated 53,000 missing-persons reports from Venezuela's earthquakeHow the identity-resolution technology banks use for KYC and sanctions screening found 61 missing earthquake victims in hospital beds.A response icon4A response icon4
InTiloresbySteven Renwick·Mar 30SAP Buys Reltio, Salesforce Buys Informatica: Why Big Tech Is Betting on Data Quality for AITwo of the largest enterprise software companies in the world have now made the same bet: the future of AI depends on clean, connected…
InTiloresbySteven Renwick·Mar 18Why Graph Databases Fail at Entity Resolution (And What to Use Instead)Graph Databases can be powerful tools for Entity Resolution (ER), but frequently run into performance and complexity roadblocks when scaled…A response icon1A response icon1
