GDPR – the essential compliance burden to keep the UK trading post-Brexit
Profile: Bryan Glick
If GDPR compliance is not near the top of IT leaders’ priorities for 2017, you have a problem.
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In the digital revolution, the Luddites are the ones in charge
Profile: Bryan Glick
Between 1811 and 1813, English textile workers and weavers conducted a campaign of protests, sabotage and occasional rioting against the spread of new technology that threatened their livelihoods during the Industrial Revolution. At times they also tried to prevent lower-paid immigrants from...
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Privacy Shield is no solution for data protection – EU should put personal data in citizens’ hands
Profile: Bryan Glick
Many US and European businesses no doubt breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission announced it had agreed a basis for replacing the defunct Safe Harbour data...
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The missing election manifesto promise – educating MPs on the UK’s digital opportunity
Profile: Bryan Glick
Who is going to be the big digital winner after the 2015 general election? Congratulations to anyone involved with smart ticketing on public transport - you're in for a good time....
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Why it’s time for the IT community to engage with politicians
Profile: Bryan Glick
No blood was spilled, but listening to the three main political parties debate their digital policies together for the first time this week laid out the battleground for their likely general election technology manifestos.
Computer Weekly, with help from TechUK and the BCS, brought...
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Privacy vs surveillance debate is nuanced and needs more education, less tribalism
Profile: Bryan Glick
It doesn't feel that long ago that the information security community were bemoaning the lack of attention they received from the government, national press and wider public. No danger of that happening now, is there?
Data protection, privacy and surveillance are leading front pages and...
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EU cyber laws should target IT suppliers’ security negligence
Profile: Bryan Glick
Cyber security has made its ultimate mainstream breakthrough. This week, a relatively minor hack targeted at Apple not only made the BBC 10 O'clock News, but warranted a lengthy studio...
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Cloud is an economic opportunity for the UK – does the government know?
Profile: Bryan Glick
It has long been the case that governments and regulators struggle to keep up with the pace of change in technology. With the growth of cloud computing - the first genuinely globalised, commoditised, off-the-shelf IT service - that challenge threatens to become a serious problem for the European...
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IT professionals must counter fear and ignorance of technology
Profile: Bryan Glick
We all know the good that technology can do, and the benefits it brings for the way we work, live and play. The future growth of the UK economy will be built on IT. Consumers are embracing technology in their everyday lives like never before.
Yet residual fear and ignorance is still...
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Prepare now – mandatory data breach disclosure is on its way
Profile: Bryan Glick
We have Sony to thank for raising the bar of the world's biggest data breaches - with some 100 million people potentially affected by the hack on its Playstation...
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