by Lee Rickwood
The number of location-revealing beacon widgets, customer-tracking cookies and pixels, downloaded analytics tools and more found in all types of ad content on an average website is seen as a real privacy concern and a major reason users deploy ad blockers.
By Christine Persaud
For decades, there have been celebrities who support various technology products, either through development input, endorsements, or even charitable ventures. Sometimes, this works well – Dr. Dre and Beats headphones is perhaps one of the best examples, given that it led to a US$3 billion purchase by Apple.
by Lee Rickwood
From cyber-criminality to targeted advertising, from corporate spies to commercial retailers, from government agencies to technology developers, it seems almost everyone is looking at our online activity. And not just looking: our digital fingerprints are being are being tracked, collected, stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-purposed, often without our knowledge and often by entities unknown to us.
Of all the things connected by the Internet of Things, it appears that a robust strategy for consumer protection, corporate security and individual privacy has not yet been fully hooked up. The Internet of Things (IoT) broadly refers to a…
By Lee Rickwood
Gaming and gambling establishments make use of interactive video technology systems, both for entertainment and regulatory purposes.
By Lee Rickwood
More than half of those surveyed said they had concerns about data security in the cloud, with only 35 per cent saying they feel their data is safer in the cloud. Nearly half also said they wanted a local data centre that provides them with control over their data.
by Lee Rickwood
We give them information about ourselves; they give us … what exactly? Usually, they give us the chance to give them something else: money, when we purchase their product or service.
By Ted Kritsonis
Scanning documents in an office can be time-consuming and the cause of much frustration, but it doesn’t have to be. ScanSnap simplifies the scanning process to the single press of the SCAN button. There is no need to fiddle with various settings or adjustments