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Bruce Blackburn, a graphic designer whose modern and minimalist logos became ingrained in the nation’s consciousness, including the four bold red letters for NASA that is known as the “worm,” and the 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial star, died on Feb. 1 at a nursing...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Today I want to talk about one of the fascinating tussles in technology: trying to turn the shop around the corner into an online store.Just about every...
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published its first-ever guidance on the European Union’s (EU) Law Enforcement Directive (LED), a sector-specific set of rules governing how law enforcement entities can process and transfer personal data.
Despite the LED being transposed into various European countries’ national...
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Handling large amounts of data is a prerequisite of digital transformation, and key to this are the concepts of data lakes and data warehouses, as well as data hubs and data marts.
In this article, we’ll start at the top of that hierarchy and look at...
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Last year, Ben Novak drove across the country to spend New Year’s Eve with a black-footed ferret. Elizabeth Ann had just turned 21 days old — surely a milestone for any ferret but a particularly meaningful one for Elizabeth Ann, the first of any...
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Sweden’s data protection authority IMY has fined the Swedish Police Authority €250,000 for unlawfully using controversial facial-recognition technology company Clearview AI to identify individuals in breach of the country’s Criminal Data Act.
Following reports in local media, an investigation by the IMY found that between the...
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The City of Helsinki has adopted MyData principles as it attempts to become the most functional digital city on the planet through proactive digital services.
MyData principles will guide the Finnish capital to ensure that people retain control of their data and trust how it is...
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HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) stands accused of “utter hypocrisy” for hiring IT contractors enrolled in disguised remuneration (DR) schemes, despite being in the midst of a contractor-focused, anti-tax avoidance enforcement campaign.
As reported by Computer Weekly on 18 February 2021, MPs from the 240-strong Loan...
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Biometric payment cards with built-in fingerprint sensors could add $5bn to revenue in the global banking sector by 2026.
According to UBS bank, the biometric technology could help payment cards retain relevance in the face of mobile payment alternatives.
The proportion of card payments made using...
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The unprecedented acceleration of digital transformation during the Covid-19 pandemic saw £821m of investment pumped into the UK’s cyber security sector – more than double the amount raised in 2019 – according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS’s) annual Cyber sector report,...
