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Smart Cities and Connected Communities - the need for standards

CGI

The first phase of development will see hospital appointments by video link, ambulances video conferencing with clinical specialists, live streaming of CCTV footage from buses and real-world testing of driverless cars. Establishing the right data handling systems and processes. The UK Smart City vision.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).