Quantum Computing Outpaces Human Beings, Even Prime Ministers
by Lee Rickwood
Quantum computers have powers above and beyond silicon computers – or carbon life forms, for that matter.
Tag: privacy
Canada’s Privacy Act Urgently Needs Major Upgrade
by Lee Rickwood
“[W]e have seen massive government breaches affecting tens, even hundreds, of thousands of citizens,” says Canada’s Privacy Commissioner. So the laws must change, he adds, calling on Canadians to provide input and ideas around protecting personal information in the online world.
Canadian Company Develops Customizable Mobile Safety Apps for Top Colleges, Universities
by Lee Rickwood
Operational and implantation buy-in from the users of a campus mobile safety application is just as important to the success of a campus security system as its features and functions, if not its actual price.
Canadian Police Forces, Emergency Services Seek to Harness ICT
by Lee Rickwood
Police forces seek to harness the power of various information and communication technologies, and to incorporate best practices for digital evidence management, Next Gen 9-1-1 services, body-worn video camera deployments and cloud-based data storage and processing.
$60 M Helps Marketers Use Power of Video Analytics and Digital Body Language
by Lee Rickwood
Vidyard says live video streaming with integrated viewer tracking and lead generation tools built-in can be used to provide an accurate picture of a prospect’s interest and intent.
Ad Blocking Won’t Stop Battles among Mobile Users, Online Advertisers, Privacy Advocates
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.
Data Privacy Day 2016 is About Protecting Not Hiding Your Information
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.
Consumer Protection and the Internet of Things
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…