Want to improve your data security? Be GDPR compliant
It turns out those regulators in Brussels know what’s what. Half a year into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation experiment, and it turns out that...
Bell Asked Canadian Government to Ban Certain VPNs
Last year a coalition of Canadian ISPs and movie industry companies called for a Canadian site-blocking regime. This plan triggered a fair amount of pushback. Law professor Michael Geist...
“Each of us is responsible for breaking stereotypes & pursuing an education rooted in equality”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech...
TensorFlow, Python, and Julia helped make 2018 the year of machine learning on GitHub
GitHubbers couldn’t get enough of machine learning in 2018. The data doesn’t lie: the 2018 State of the Octoverse report showed that ML and data science...
TrueLayer’s Payments API lets companies accept payments through Open Banking
Open Banking and PSD2 — groundbreaking regulation from the U.K. and European Union, respectively — set out to fix what politicians and civil servants perceived as...
An update on our work to prevent abuse ahead of the EU elections
Concerns about disinformation run high ahead of elections, a time when secure access to authoritative information is essential. Over the past few years, as more attempts...
Geek Trivia: Skimmers Are Used To Capture What Kind Of Data?
Skimmers Are Used To Capture What Kind Of Data? Email Headers Social Security Numbers BitTorrent User IDs Credit Card Numbers Think you know the answer? Source...
Apple disables group calling in FaceTime in response to eavesdropping bug
Apple has disabled the group calling feature within its FaceTime calling service while it works on a patch to fix a nasty bug that allows eavesdropping. Apple’s...
To fight election meddling, Google’s cyber unit Jigsaw extends its anti-DDoS protections to European politicos
Jigsaw, the cybersecurity-focused division owned by Google parent Alphabet, is now allowing political organizations in Europe to sign up for its anti-web-flooding technology for free. Until now,...
WeWork could challenge Starbucks in China with new on-demand service
The rise of Starbucks in China, like that in the west, is closely linked to its function as a “third space” for people to hang out...
