In today’s rapidly changing world, making informed career and industry choices has never been more crucial. Facing the contemporary challenge of the “employment maze,” young people especially need to consider the potential growth and stability of emerging industries. While technological advancements challenge many traditional sectors, they also pave the way for new opportunities. 10 emerging ...
In the world of conflicting information, and with news credibility on the wane, who can you trust anymore? In the cybersecurity world, Apple has taken a bold step in the right direction by introducing the “nutrition label” concept that now requires app developers to disclose the privacy data they collect from their app users. “Inspired ...
In May 2018, the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law. All companies that sell products or services in the EU are required to comply with GDPR whether the firm is located in the region or not. As far as U.S. companies are concerned, a few have been fined and several firms ...
Robert O’Brien, the new national security advisor to President Donald Trump, warned that U.S. allies who are thinking of allowing Huawei to build their 5G networks risk an information security doomsday. Such a situation would allow the Chinese government to have backdoor access to their citizen’s private data. Accessing private information “Every medical record, every ...
In an increasingly data-driven world, are we just walking data sources for the benefit of giant multinational corporations? Every single minute, there are 3.8 million search queries on Google, 4.5 million videos watched on YouTube, almost $1 million spent online, and 41.6 million messages sent via WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger — and these are a ...
After almost a decade in court, Google has decided to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of privacy breaches for collecting people’s personal data without their consent through its Street View program (between 2007 and 2010). The settlement will require the company to pay out US$13 million as compensation and also mandates that all ...
The increasing influence of technology in every aspect of human life has many people worried. One person tracking the impact of technology in our daily lives is Shoshana Zuboff. In 1988, Zuboff wrote a book called The Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, which looked at how computerization would affect businesses ...
China has rapidly deployed 5G equipment throughout the country and is expected to widely roll out next-generation mobile Internet service sometime this year. This would make China one of the first countries in the world where 5G services are made available on a large scale, putting it in a leadership position. Having an authoritarian government ...
More than 40 percent of American households have already had smart meters installed in their homes. These devices collect data on electricity consumption in a household and send it back to the central computer system of the utility provider. The meter uses RF transmissions to talk with the central system. Some people worry that the ...
When news of Tencent’s US$150 million investment in Reddit spread over the Internet, users of the website were furious. They were afraid that the Chinese company would bring in a new set of censorship policies on their beloved platform on behest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Interestingly, Reddit itself is banned in China. Chinese ...
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