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dark data
/dɑːrk ˈdeɪtə/ - n.
1 [colloq.] Most of it, kept on the theory that volume is a strategy.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.
Working definition
2. Data an organization collects and stores but never uses, classifies, or governs.
Promoted
Seen in the wild · 1
- "Storage Is Cheap" Was a Loan, Not a StrategyOwner Missing
See also
- data dispositionThe least-rehearsed verb in the data lifecycle, and the first one a regulator asks you to demonstrate.
- data swampTerm struck pending the definitions of quality, ownership, catalog, and lineage it was supposed to replace.
- keep everything for aiData minimization's opposite, sponsored at the executive level, filed under strategy rather than under risk.