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Covid-19 Spurs Facial Recognition Tracking, Privacy Fears

Threatpost

The coronavirus pandemic is creating a lucrative market for facial recognition manufacturers. But privacy issues need to be top of mind, tech experts warn.

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Australian Defense Department will replace surveillance cameras from Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua

Security Affairs

An internal audit of surveillance equipment in Australian government and agency offices revealed the presence of more than 900 built systems manufactured by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua. The decision of the Australian government is aligned with similar decisions taken by the US and UK governments. Mao said. “We

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Businesses to Assist NHS Test and Trace Efforts

Hunton Privacy

Establishments and companies in the UK will therefore be responsible for the additional collection and potential sharing of customers’ personal data. Any entity engaging in this kind of data collection will need to comply with the requirements of data protection law.

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Critical Success Factors to Widespread Deployment of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication. However, the security mindset is changing.

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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Schneier on Security

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Security theater manufactures consent.

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How to Prepare for the Metaverse

AIIM

Retailers and brands will open virtual stores, launch virtual collections, or host exclusive digital events for their targeted NFT holders. Data architecture is probably the first to rank. Scalability will be tested to the maximum due to the extreme data collection and data processing requirements coming from metaverse scenarios.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.