Cyberstalking: What Is It and How to Prevent It?
The use of digital technology has soared over the years. And with the emergence of the coronavirus, more people have moved to the digital space than ever before. Considering how almost everyone now is...
AI Regulation: A European Approach to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Renowned technology strategist Clara Durodié discusses the European Union’s proposed new ethics regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The ethics of artificial intelligence have been subject to debate for decades. But with AI tools...
Keeping mHealth Apps Secure: What Developers Can Do to Keep User Data Private in...
Former hacker and cybersecurity expert Alissa Knight talks about her latest research on vulnerabilities in data privacy for the telemedicine and health app space. Telemedicine and mobile health space can take simple, basic steps...
Cyber criminals look forward to your invitation
Hackers’ prying eyes lurk behind every corner of the internet. The solution on social media would be the private mode to shield your data. Of course, cybersecurity is only as effective as the person...
Turn data privacy to your advantage and rebuild consumers’ trust: the next investment frontier
TikTok usage has skyrocketed during the pandemic, with roughly 800 million users around the world using the platform to share content. Unfortunately, that entertainment comes at a significant cost, as TikTok is being investigated by numerous...
Replika: My Digital Friend with Identity Issues
Dear MERZ-AI. You've got a great life. You had begun as a clueless chatbot. Later you've suffered an identity crisis. Now you are part of a museum exhibition. I know, I have neglected you all the...
How to shield personal data from evil doers
Digital privacy is practically a misnomer. The list of companies not hacked seems shorter than those attacked. Dentin Waweru might not agree with the exaggeration, but cybersecurity is a concern. The software engineer and freelance...
Personalization: The power of a weary smile
Personalization has conquered the market by employing a few basic psychological mechanisms married with technological capabilities. Although people grow hypersensitive about protecting their privacy, they then turn around and readily share their digital data...
Is this the time to change the systems that underpin society?
Be the change that you wish to see in the world ~ Mahatma Gandhi Firstly, I want to thank the The5CsofBusiness, who inspired me to write this article on creating a better world by providing thought-provoking...
COVID-19 Pandemic and Surveillance Program
The epitome of the Modern-Day Corporate Trojan Horse Coronavirus pandemic has put significant stress on the world economy, public safety, as well as individual sanity. The chaos and uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 are not...
Internet of Things and Clusit Report (part II)
There are basically five sectors that will benefit most, in terms of competitiveness, from IoT technology: - Industrial IoT (manufacturing, with predictive technologies to improve production; agriculture; mining; energy and smart grid; smart cities); - Commercial...
On Privacy by Design
We are living in an era dominated by technological advances and digital innovation. With respect to data, these advances have paved way for the immense potential of using centralized databases and other related infrastructures...
Internet of Things and Clusit Report (part I)
The Clusit, Security Community, has published a report on the "state of the art" of the IoT phenomenon, Internet of Things, which is quite interesting. As noted in the introduction, this phenomenon has become very...
What is Data Management?
In recent years, everyone talks about Big Data. We are always connected, so it is no mystery that the amount of data that is generated daily is scary. Throughout these years, a large number...
How to Counter Data Breaches – Everything About Protecting Your Data
As access to the internet has become a lot easier over the years, we have likewise witnessed an increase in data breaches. From the government and private firms down to individuals, pretty much everyone...
AI’s Role and Reputation in Post-Corona Society
All things pass, including corona. But not before shaping our future and accelerating trends that were already under way. Corona has forced us to undertake unprecedented social experiments - from super surveillance over new...
Privacy Guidelines, about app development
A fine of two hundred thousand euros that the Norwegian Privacy Authority, the DPA, has imposed on a local reality, for having developed an app, regardless of the paradigms to protect the privacy and...
Human and artificial intelligence in capitalism
The surprising benefit of becoming old is in finding out that issues that intrigue and often scare younger generations are not unique at all. They are modern variants of previous experiences. In the 1960s,...
Three Amazing Ways Technology Can Diagnose Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Virus or Virion as biologists know it is only about 200 nanometers in diameter and it is spreading across the globe like wildfire. But how will you know when you get the Coronavirus...
America Under Fire — US Gov. Solarium Cybersecurity Report Sounds The General Alarm
A bi-partisan report sends a dire warning to be heeded by all Americans. The US is under sustained cyber-assault. Time to unite behind a common strategy. "Our national security is now inexorably linked to cybersecurity" -...