Can Snowden finally kill the ‘harmless metadata’ myth?
Attorney-General Brandis needs to forget categorising personal data by how it is collected, and focus on whether its use to solve crime justifies invading our privacy.
(more...)Majority of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in the future: Gartner
The research firm claims that 75 percent of all mobile applications will fail basic security tests next year — leaving the enterprise vulnerable.
(more...)Microsoft and Yahoo spar with U.S. government [Government IT News]
September 15, 2014
Government,Government Asia,Government AU,Government UK,Government US,Privacy,Security,ZDNet
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The big online and tech companies suffer from an interesting conflict: the government is both customer and the one carrying the biggest stick in the privacy battle. Unless there’s a major policy change, you’re going to see more stories like these.
(more...)Microsoft and Yahoo spar with U.S. government [Government IT News]
September 15, 2014
Government,Government Asia,Government AU,Government UK,Government US,Privacy,Security,ZDNet
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The big online and tech companies suffer from an interesting conflict: the government is both customer and the one carrying the biggest stick in the privacy battle. Unless there’s a major policy change, you’re going to see more stories like these.
(more...)Apple: Fashion over function doesn’t mean business
No-one will deny that Cupertino’s products are fashionable and beautifully-designed. But that doesn’t make them enterprise-grade.
(more...)Future of the enterprise: Heavy investment in Internet of Things security
Research firm Gartner says over 20 percent of enterprises will invest in security for business initiatives using Internet of Things devices by 2017.
(more...)Yahoo says U.S. gov’t threatened $250K in daily fines over data requests in 2008
But Yahoo didn’t score an all-out victory being that “portions of the documents remain sealed and classified to this day, unknown even to our team.”
(more...)Google Apps patching up with iOS Sync, Hangouts gets free voice calls
Google is improving upon an app popular for personal and business use cases alike.
(more...)iPhone 6: Four things we need, but may not get
Maybe the new iPhone 6 will be the greatest thing since sliced bread, but that doesn’t mean Apple still doesn’t have a lot of basics that need fixing.
(more...)China develops facial recognition payment system with near-perfect accuracy
With 99.8 percent accuracy, the system will be available to both individual customers and retailers by 2015.
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