Governing identity privacy and security

COVID-19 and the data collection trade off - privacy still matters This article is sponsored by:

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip nations, government and business are extending their data collection measures. Data privacy is still important.

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New workflows from Box; Dropbox adds password manager, backup, family plan This article is sponsored by:

While Box added new workflow templates this week, Dropbox focused more on consumers, announcing a password manager, cloud backup and family plan - my thoughts below

Re-imagining the omni-channel in-store experience - transformational learnings from three US retailers This article is sponsored by:

COVID-19 is driving change in the way retailers operate their physical stores - BestBuy, Vince and Lands End share their experiences to date.

SAPPHIRENow 2020 - CEO Klein's inaccessible keynote focuses on resilience, profitability and sustainability This article is sponsored by:

'Service unavailable' for the CEO's keynote marred an otherwise interesting vision SAP has set for itself.

Meet the Anxious Consumer - omni-channel retail's new target demographic as stores come out of COVID-19 shutdown This article is sponsored by:

Physical stores are beginning to re-open around the world, but for omni-channel retailers the challenges of operating post-COVID-19 are only just beginning. Go digital and innovate is the clarion call.

IBM drops out of facial recognition software market; cites mass surveillance, human rights and racial justice concerns This article is sponsored by:

Big Blue does the right thing and maybe even for the right reasons.

"Look, I could be wrong about this, but..." - Tony Blair makes the case for a digital ID scheme (again) in a post-COVID-19 world This article is sponsored by:

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is putting his weight behind another form of government digital ID scheme. Will the COVID-19 pandemic be enough to overcome objections this time around?

BT AI chief criticises UK’s centralised approach to COVID-19 contact tracing app This article is sponsored by:

Detlef Nauck, head of AI and data science research at BT, said it would have been better to go with a decentralised approach.

Enterprise hits and misses - contactless payments on the rise, equality on the corporate agenda, and Zoom and Slack in review This article is sponsored by:

This week - will health demands of COVID-19 push the U.S. into hands-free payments? Zoom, Slack and Zuora all face the earnings music - we analyze. And: equality is on the corporate agenda - but is it platitudes or action? Your whiffs include fun-with-AI, and angry cockatoos.

Analytics + natural language tools - Tibco and Arria’s twin solution to kick-start a post-COVID-19 economy This article is sponsored by:

Tibco and Arria are using pandemic analyses to show how big Big Data + natural language tools could get the post-pandemic economy kick-started.

EU policy doc recommends building ‘European Internet Firewall’ similar to China’s - “Let’s build a new digital Europe!” This article is sponsored by:

China’s Great Firewall is often criticised by western countries, but it seems policy makers in the EU perceive there are benefits to the approach.

Aston Martin CIO - WannaCry pushed us into a cyber security refresh This article is sponsored by:

The huge cyber-attack prompted the company to make changes – and SentinelOne proved itself when Aston Martin was hit by ransomware during the POC stage

COVID-19 and changed organizational IT priorities - three CIOs explain how their companies tech teams have responded This article is sponsored by:

IT teams have had to respond rapidly to the organizational demands of the COVID-19 crisis - three perspectives from three business CIOs.