IT decision makers across the UK have begun to see how data regulation can positively impact their organizations’ commercial operations according to new research from NetApp. The firm surveyed IT managers, CIOs and CTOs across 501 UK-based businesses to find that more than half (53 percent) say that data regulation has or will have a positive impact while only 18 percent have seen or anticipate a … Continue reading UK firms more worried about Brexit than GDPR

The increasingly real prospect of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit has serious implications for businesses across the UK. One very real concern is what impact a ‘no deal’ scenario would mean in terms of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). https://www.techradar.com/news/brexit-and-gdpr-what-businesses-should-be-doing-to-prepare-for-a-no-deal-scenario Continue reading Brexit and GDPR: what businesses should be doing to prepare for a ‘no deal’ scenario

Today marks the 13th annual Data Protection Day, a day aimed at raising awareness and promoting good data privacy practices around the world. The past year saw vast changes impacting the UK’s data protection landscape, not the least of which is due to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially coming into play. The regulation means that regardless of the industry or location, any … Continue reading Here is the one reason why companies are getting data protection wrong

Britain’s impending exit from the European Union is a major concern for the UK tech industry, with immigration top of the worry list. Source: UK Tech Braces Itself for Brexit – The Mac Observer Continue reading UK Tech Braces Itself for Brexit – The Mac Observer

Video: For years, Ashkan Soltani has warned of Facebook’s privacy-eroding tendencies. If there’s one person outside of government who has stood against Facebook’s crashing wave, it’s Ashkan Soltani. Late last year, the independent privacy researcher was suddenly called to speak before the UK Parliament about Facebook’s privacy practices, simply because he happened to be in London and, in his own words, “was just a dick on Twitter.” Source: Why … Continue reading Why Silicon Valley’s “growth at any cost” is the new “unsafe at any speed”

At first, saying yes to everything was a boon to my social life and my career. Then my workload started to get out of hand and I became racked with guilt Source: The joy and relief of saying no: how I learned to stop worrying and turn people down Continue reading The joy and relief of saying no: how I learned to stop worrying and turn people down

Internet giants like Google might breathe a little easier in Europe… at least, for now. The EU has called off January 21st negotiations for a final vote on the controversial Copyright Directive after 11 countries, including Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, said they wouldn’t support the latest version of the proposal. European Parliament Member Julia Reda noted that most of these countries (Croatia and Portugal are exceptions) have previously argued that … Continue reading EU copyright laws face uncertain fate after 11 countries reject proposal

Even well-established private companies are at constant risk of failure, as evidenced by some of the startups that went out of business in 2018. Source: The 25 most valuable American startups that died last year Continue reading The 25 most valuable American startups that died last year

A new study among leaders in the Netherlands has found that an air of pessimism has descended upon Dutch executives in the last twelve months. Geopolitical uncertainties arising from the culmination of Brexit in 2019 and the tumultuous Presidency of Donald Trump are anticipated by many business leaders to have a knock-on effect on the economy of the Netherlands in the coming year. Source: Mood … Continue reading Mood among Dutch business leaders darkens ahead of Brexit

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those suggestions in the first place. Source: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook Continue reading LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook

Self-appointed voice of the UK tech industry techUK has been hit by a Twitter backlash from some of the country’s leading tech figures after calling for support for Theresa May’s Brexit deal. https://www.techradar.com/news/techuk-slammed-over-support-for-brexit-deal Continue reading TechUK slammed over support for Brexit deal

Although we spend over a third of our lives at work, most of us are professionally unsatisfied. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workforce report, a mere 15 per cent of workers worldwide claim to be actively engaged in their jobs. While there are regional variations, the figure never exceeds 40 per cent and the productivity cost to the global economy is estimated at a massive … Continue reading Spotting complacent characters in the workplace