Donald Trump’s successful bid to become the next U.S. President has prompted the UK digital rights and freedom group ‘The Open Rights Group’ (ORG) to publicly express fears that UK citizens may now be the subject of greater surveillance.
It appears that some U.S. voters were so horrified by the prospect of living in America with Donald Trump as President that they crashed immigration websites in New Zealand and Canada in their bid to find an alternative safe haven.
Customers of payment services company Stripe are to be given access to a new directory of some 300 compatible apps, that can be integrated and used with their existing Stripe services to make more meaningful and value-adding use of the data.
A request by insurance company Admiral to trial a scheme, whereby the contents of the Facebook profiles of young drivers would be used in order to judge their safety as drivers (and thereby influence their insurance premiums), has been given the thumbs down by Facebook.
Microsoft has added a new toolkit called ‘Microsoft Team’ to Office 365. The new add-on will use intelligent services in an attempt to reinvent workplace communications and collaboration.
Tesco Bank is reported to be working with the National Crime Agency to investigate an incident where suspicious transactions resulted in money being taken from thousands of customer current accounts.
After its unveiling in a live demo at the Max Conference San Diego last week, Adobe’s Project VoCo audio/voice manipulation software has been the subject of some concern over its potential for misuse.
One of the most sensitive and private aspects of our personal lives is our medical records.
Until 2014 when we started to hear how drug and insurance companies would be able to buy information taken from them we had assumed that that a promise of confidentiality would never be broken. It should not come as absolute surprise therefore that other types of companies would be next in line, and a recent article in New Scientist has highlighted how tech giant Google has been granted access to 1.6 million NHS patient records. If you’re wondering how and why, read on.
A recent Computer Weekly article highlighted how, according to a leading London based investment management Careers Company young people may be missing out on rewarding IT careers in the financial services sector due to a lack of awareness of the opportunities and career pathways.
Desktop has always been the way that most people access the web, although this trend has been in decline in recent years. Now the latest figures show that mobile access overtook desktop for the first time in October.
StatCounter figures for October have shown the balance tipping towards desktop for the first time last month with 51.3% of global web traffic accessing the web using smartphones and tablets.
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