Privacy

Blockchain

Worldwide spending on blockchain forecast to reach $11.7 billion in 2022, according to new IDC spending guide

Research and Trials

Gartner recommends adjusting IT procurement methods to avoid GDPR fines

Telco & CSP

Orange and Europol sign a memorandum of understanding to fight cybercrime more effectively

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Policy & Regulation

“Let us look after your data”: How telcos might benefit from GDPR

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Data & Analytics

More than 90% of businesses can’t use analytics to predict individual needs. Hurrah!

Devices

Sprint awarded $26.9M in cell phone trafficking suit

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Data & Analytics

Big Data for Social Good (BD4SG) Day bigs up ethical uses for aggregated personal data

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AI & ML

Google falls into the old ‘my robot’s too smart for its own good’ trap

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Transformation

Digital Transformation World – Day 2

Security

ADVA secures the cloud with industry's first virtualized encryption solution

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Telco & CSP

Bye Mark: WhatsApp's Jan Koum heads off to find new friends

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Google

Sergey Brin: still trying hard not to be Evil

Tracker

Hard questions: what data does Facebook collect when I’m not using Facebook, and why?

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Privacy

Zuckerberg’s curse: now all data gathering is seen as suspect

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Facebook

Zuckerberg kow-tows to US Congress but snubs UK government

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Facebook

Zuckerberg pours oil on troubled workers

Tracker

Hard Questions: Update on Cambridge Analytica

Banksy does Brexit via Flickr © dullhunk (CC BY 2.0)

Facebook

Shutting the stable door after 50 million Facebook records have bolted

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Data & Analytics

Competition: which companies are best placed to get their grubby hands on my data?

Tracker

Europe cannot afford to miss the data revolution

Tracker

Orange co-signs the letter from 50 companies and associations on the proposal for an e-Privacy regulation

IoT

World Bank Group and GSMA announce partnership to leverage IoT big data for development

Tracker

Telefónica partners with McAfee to protect customer devices embedding its technology in the home Internet routers

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Devices

What’s a ‘Smart Notification’? One that knows it’s not wanted?