The rise of commercial data profiling is exacerbating existing inequities in society and could turn de facto discrimination into a high-tech enterprise.

Do you really know your data? Profiling is the first step in uncovering weaknesses in your database so that data can be captured accurately for use in analytics, business intelligence and master data ...

SQL Server 2008 Integration Services ships with the wonderful new Data Profiling Task. Much as the name implies, it profiles the data in a given table and returns a ton of useful information. The task ...

Data profiling uses high-speed NFS or CIFS crawling to index user files and email repositories. Metadata is the default indexing approach; however, full content indexing is available if keyword ...

French open-source data-integration vendor Talend SA today unveiled its data profiling application, which will allow companies to assess their data quality as a key part of data integration projects.

The newly discovered "Profiling" toggle for T-Mobile customers allows the company to collect extensive data and predict user behavior. T-Mobile could be "profiling" you right now — here's how to ...

Unused and unexamined contact cards -- supposed to be used to track possible racial profiling by local police -- are sitting in boxes. Contact Card Controversy Continues Cards: Survey:Do You Think ...

WASHINGTON — Connecticut is the first state to enlist in a nationwide bid to share law enforcement racial profiling data it collects from individual police departments and state police. “What ...