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ICO to Look at Data Analytics in Politics Big data is everywhere. If you do anything online, whether with a mobile phone or laptop computer, there are entities out there in the digital universe collecting data about you and analysing it for marketing purposes. There are also political entities making...
A data centre fire in southern Australia disrupted numerous businesses last week, including account access among customers of UniSuper, a superannuation provider with more than AUS $56 billion in assets. Fortunately, no customer information was lost as a result of the failure and the data centre was back online a...
With cyber crime seemingly increasing on a daily basis, one UK high street bank has decided to fight back. Barclays has launched a new nationwide initiative designed to educate consumers, businesses and authorities in how cyber crimes are carried out and what can be done to prevent them. The initiative...
It is no secret that Apple is looking to be the dominant technology company where green energy is concerned. Their new corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California (USA) is already slated to run on 100% renewable energy and Apple has made great strides in using more environmentally friendly packaging. Now they...
Network troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and security are daily tasks in the data centre. Add data privacy and other regulations in the healthcare, government, education, finance and other sectors and you are adding another level of complexity to your network monitoring. Network visibility solutions that recognise data patterns can help reduce...
As the whole world knows by now, March 22nd2017 was a deadly day in London. A man identified as Khalid Masood drove a rental car onto the pavement as he crossed Westminster Bridge, purposely hitting pedestrians as he made his way directly to the Houses of Parliament, where he exited...
We undeniably should be doing everything we can to prevent data breaches. But to expect that we'll ever reach a day when any and all data breaches are eliminated is unrealistic. The fact is that humans are imperfect creatures capable of making all kinds of mistakes. As a case in...
Have you ever entered personal information into an online account without reading the fine print? Of course you have; we all do it from time to time. What you may not know is that located in all that fine print may be a sentence that says something like, 'you agree...
The UK has been a world leader in digital technology and the digital economy for a while now. More importantly, our position as a world leader is not something we have come by through mere accident or coincidence. It has been a concerted effort by government leaders and the private...
The biggest mistakes most people make when it comes to air pollution is thinking their business is immune to air quality problems. As a business owner, you will have to do all you can to ensure your customers and employees stay safe. Air pollution is something you probably don’t think...
Microsoft won an important court case in 2017 in which it was cleared of having to turn over user data stored on servers in Ireland. It was believed that one more similar ruling would, once and for all, answer the question of whether US government officials could access private data...
What happens when a small wholesaler doesn't get paid on time by the grocery chains it supplies? Or how about the small data centre and collocation provider whose enterprise clients don't pay their monthly bills on time? Small businesses suffer disproportionately when their customers subject them to late payments because...