…we should really enforce the one particular aspects that I truly believe in which is making these, you know, private companies, believe that they have no choice but to have privacy and trust, as a key differentiator in the in their business they really have to invest in that they really have to put the …
“The future of privacy is likely to be complicated. For starters, no one can even agree what “privacy” means today. Some argue its first obituary was written 21 years ago when Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, pronounced: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” That may, technically speaking, be true. A different …
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Privacy cannot be looked at as an after-thought or a feature but as an integral part of a product lifecycle. Privacy by design means that protection of personal data is thought off at the design stage by the technology engineers. Key features: It is proactive, and not remedial Privacy has to be a default feature …
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Persona’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows users to complete ID verification within seconds and obtain results as quickly. And its API and drop-in widget are designed to play nicely with existing apps and services. Persona raises $17.5 million to verify identities without humans in the loop
“There’s been a persistent under-engagement by big publishers in the technology around their online businesses,” said Don Marti, a strategist for browser company Mozilla. The tide is turning, though, he said, noting, “The forward-thinking publishers are interested in establishing some kind of a common enabling tech front on web technologies and the organizational aspects of …
“Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?” A much needed paradigm shift. The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
The Personal Data & identity Working Group Members review what is happening in the sector and how they plan to help move the sector forward. On the the increasing requirement for the sharing of individual’s health data, Digi.Me’s clients are asking for: Single Source of Data – business don’t want the job of collating/aggregating/rating multiple …
Hello digital citizens. Alistair here, writing to you from San Francisco about California’s new privacy law that kicked in a few days ago. It gives me the right to ask companies to send me my data, tell them to delete it, and prevent them from selling it. I gave it a try, and so far …
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Most cookie consent pop-ups served to internet users in the European Union — ostensibly seeking permission to track people’s web activity — are likely to be flouting regional privacy laws, a new study by researchers at MIT, UCL and Aarhus University suggests. Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules, study suggests by Natasha Lomas on …
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