Tag: Privacy

Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

You start typing something into Google and it finishes your sentence, you ask Alexa to play music and she starts playing your favorite songs, the ads you see on your phone and your computer are the things you’ve been saving up to buy. Suddenly, you realize the internet is your best friend and it knows… Read more Do you ever feel like you're being watched?

Your Cloud Data is Safe...Right?

Last Friday Mr. Paron spoke to us about some of Microsoft’s developments in the cloud computing field. One of the areas he touched on was the security present at the data centers–multiple layers of biometrics, tall fences, scanners, and other methods to protect its customers’ data. These security features are quite impressive, and would protect… Read more Your Cloud Data is Safe...Right?

Technological advancements - Balance between Earnings-Per-Share and Ethics-Privacy-Security

Processing Power accelerating new technologies: AI/ML, Big Data and IoT Computing power is the driving force for recent advancements in AI/ML, Cloud Computing, BigData and IoT technologies. Tech companies are striving hard to maintain and expand their dominance in the tech field by using advanced processor technologies. For instance, Google has released its third-generation TPU… Read more Technological advancements - Balance between Earnings-Per-Share and Ethics-Privacy-Security

Blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organization Is Future!

  When I first came across Blockchain [1] three years ago, I realized this is a super-powerful technology which can change the whole world fundamentally. I quickly fell in love with Blockchain, did research and even wrote a Blockchain cookbook, which is widely used by my company and our clients. You may not know Blockchain,… Read more Blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organization Is Future!

Algorithmic Bias: Challenges and Solutions

A recent article in The Guardian described the issue of discrimination by algorithms with a few examples: “There was the voice recognition software that struggled to understand women, the crime prediction algorithm that targeted black neighborhoods and the online ad platform which was more likely to show men highly paid executive jobs”. When I worked on a fraud analytics project… Read more Algorithmic Bias: Challenges and Solutions

Spear Phishing

PHISHING EMAILS. We’ve all had them. “Enter your bank details at *insert link here* for a tax rebate/PPI claim/windfall from your long lost great-great-uncle’s savings. We are become more and more aware of these attempts to rob us, especially now that millenials, who are wiser to these threats, are starting to become so prevalent in… Read more Spear Phishing

BIG DATA AND MODERN SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

One could define Big Data as “the growth in the volume of structured and unstructured data, the speed at which it is created and collected, and the scope of how many data points are covered.”[1] According to Jeffrey Welser Vice President and Lab Director at IBM Research, unstructured data volume grows exponentially. Today, in just… Read more BIG DATA AND MODERN SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Cybersecurity and Wearables

What Is Cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorised access [1]. With continuously evolving technology, threats are advancing faster than the cybersecurity advancements being made. Cybercriminals aim to exploit weaknesses within a system, and this has turned cybercrime into… Read more Cybersecurity and Wearables

Level Up: Smart Cities

Smart Homes to Smart Cities In the technology era we are living in, computers, phones, homes and even cities are getting smarter each and every day. As more people start to connect to the internet, so do other “things”. One of the common discussion topics of our guest speakers was the dependency on connectivity. To… Read more Level Up: Smart Cities

Let’s Go Smart and Forget The Rest?

No doubt more and more things will be connected to the Internet. The result is more data, and a lot more data. According to a report by Mckinsey, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices would increase to 30 billion by 2020. Wide-ranging applications of IoT are being developed, it will change the way… Read more Let’s Go Smart and Forget The Rest?