Zoom privacy and security issues: Here’s everything that’s wrong (so far)
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More than a dozen security and privacy problems have been found in Zoom recently. Here’s an updated list. Are you using Zoom yet? Everyone in America who’s been forced to work, or do schoolwork, from home during the coronavirus lockdown seems to be using the …
COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App Must-Haves: Security, Privacy
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many nations have introduced – or announced plans to introduce – smartphone-based contact-tracing apps to help fight the virus. But while such programs may have public health benefits, hundreds of scientists and researchers, in an open letter, have warned that …
IT Improvements Coming to Meet Unprecedented Demand for Government Online Services
The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget continues to make improvements to the secure login application that provides access to many state online services, MILogin, to adjust for the rapid increase in demand for online services. Adding capacity to the system, managing the number …
Key technology trends that will redefine businesses over the next 3 years
To compete and succeed in a world where digital is everywhere, companies need a new focus on balancing “value” with “values,” aligning their drive to create business value with their customers’ and employees’ values and expectations, according to Accenture. A new mindset and approach is required …
Facial Recognition Technology Is the New Rogues’ Gallery
Fueled by explosive reporting, foreign totalitarian regimes, and a lifetime of dystopian sci-fi, the movement to ban the government’s use of face recognition technology is growing. As of now, seven cities across the country—San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California, and Brookline, Somerville, Northampton, and Cambridge in Massachusetts—have banned the government use of …
Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Technology
On July 1 the City of San Francisco effected a ban on facial recognition technology—the first of its kind in the nation. Aimed at leading with transparency, accountability and equity, the ban passed as part of the city’s Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance. While the city stopped …
Toward A More Fully Digital Bank
Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian shares his thoughts on how banks are using cloud technology to drive digital transformation. Over the last few decades, banking executives have been told that fintechs will upend the financial system, that digital-first challengers will disrupt their customer base, that …
Regulatory landscape provides added incentive for enterprises to explore blockchain
The increasing emphasis on data privacy gained widespread attention last year with the enforcement deadline of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Regardless of your perspective on GDPR and its impact on enterprises, the need for organizations to provide more robust solutions to protecting customers’ …
Computing and artificial intelligence: Humanistic perspectives from MIT
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) will reorient the Institute to bring the power of computing and artificial intelligence to all fields at MIT, and to allow the future of computing and AI to be shaped by all MIT disciplines. To support ongoing planning …
Futurist Tim O’Reilly Sees a Human-Computer Symbiosis Bigger Than AI
Tim O’Reilly is a kind of bard of technology, a lyrical poet of computing’s past, present and future. Ask him a question and whole paragraphs of reflection bubble up. Is the present state of artificial intelligence, for example, bigger than the open-source software revolution, an …
