Governing identity privacy and security

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.

Trump vs Twitter - a politically expedient social media spat with implications for the kind of internet we want This article is sponsored by:

Donald Trump has taken exception to having a fact-checked notice put on one of his tweets, resulting in an escalation of war against social media platform providers that could have a long term impact on the shape of the internet.

‘Privacy has taken a back seat’ as governments pursue digital contact tracing This article is sponsored by:

A new report released by global public policy firm Access Partnership also highlights the risks contact tracing poses to data flows with the EU.

The sick economy and the medication needed for recovery - two perspectives from across the political aisle This article is sponsored by:

Tackling the COVID-19 heath crisis is the main priority, but beyond that lies uncertainty about the extent and duration of the damage caused by the pandemic on the world's economies. Appian's virtual conference heard from 2 leading US economists who've served very different political masters.

Odaseva's Sovan Bin on why having a backup and data recovery plan is the key to COVID-19 survival This article is sponsored by:

Malicious hackers, remote workers, and a lack of IT support make backup and restore the most important directive for many companies.