Picture this phrase: ”You can do it if you have the permission”. What does it bring to your mind? Something that parents would say to their little child or something written in the law-book? Unfortunately it’s both. Because today such an absurd application is found regarding legislation of use of personal data. I don’t know […]

The biggest challenges in the design of speech and audio interfaces frequently repeated urban story is that someone talks about an arbitrary topic, say “cars” and minutes later he sees a car-advertisement on Facebook. Or that you talk about “Greg” and seconds later you see a “Add friend” notification for someone named Greg. This highlights a […]

Trouble at Google and Facebook shows how susceptible we are to losing control of our data — by accident or design It’s been over a week since Facebook announced that, thanks to a coding vulnerability, access tokens for at least 50 million* accounts were stolen. Access tokens are important. As Facebook explained in its blog detailing the […]

Our lives are still rich in personal privacy — and we should fight to keep it that way Privacy protections are at risk yet again. The Five Eyes security alliance, which spans the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, has issued a “Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence […]

Brendan Eich, the CEO of decentralized browser Brave, has urged members of the U.S. senate to consider the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a regulatory model, according to a statement published Oct. 2. In an open letter dated Sept. 29, Eich called on members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to look to the […]

Forex exchange (FX) settlement giant CLS is in the final stages of testing its blockchain payment service for banks, Financial News reported July 27. The service is reportedly set to be launched later this summer, with at least seven banks expected to sign on to the system in the early months. CLS, the New York-based global multi-currency cash settlement system, has been working with […]

Decentralized application (DApp) platform Enigma will partner with Intel on privacy research as it prepares to launch its blockchain testnet, the two companies confirmed June 20. Enigma, which completed a $45 mln Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in September of last year, said the collaboration would focus on “research and development efforts to advance development of privacy preserving computation technologies.” The platform aims to provide the […]