Opinion

Data Scientists are Dangerous

How data scientists’ priorities and workflows may be the biggest data security threat to your organization

Dan Lester
Towards AI
Published in
6 min readMay 15, 2020

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There is a struggle over data in the modern enterprise: for good offensive strategy, employees need access to as much data as possible. But the defensive side pulls in the opposite direction — carefully restricting data access to avoid costly data breaches and to comply with regulations¹.

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