Nearly 75% of Brits ‘don’t feel ready for Coronavirus’
A majority of Brits are feeling anxiety over families, health and travel, as the Coronavirus, and measures to combat it, spreads, according to new research.
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Rise of remote workforce creates new protection and compliance risks
Consumer messaging apps have overtaken email for work communication via mobile, which in turn is creating new privacy and security risks faced by employers and employees, according to a new report.
Coronavirus: Employer-employee disconnect on home working response
Only 14% of UK office workers been mandated to work from home full-time by their employers during the coronavirus outbreak, despite over half (52%) having expressed a preference for doing so, according to new research.
WeChat ‘censored coronavirus-related messages’ since January 1st
WeChat, one of China’s most popular social media apps, started to censor messages about the coronavirus a week before officials acknowledged the virus, according to new research.
Smart ID: iProov provides biometric technology for Estonia’s digital identity programme
Secure authentication provider iProov has taken its technology live in Estonia’s state-certified digital identity programme.
Travel bans and remote working: Twitter, Amazon and Google take Coronavirus precautions
Major corporations around the world, including Twitter, Amazon and Nike are putting in place extra measures to try and limit the spread of novel coronavirus.
Ad fraud threat alert: the 404bot scheme stealing your media spend
A new ad bot scheme is posing a threat to advertisers worldwide, by generating fake browser data and creating fabricated URLs to their media spend, according to new research.
38% of small firms ‘believe the GDPR doesn’t apply to them’
Nearly 2 in 5 (38%) of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) believe that the GDPR does not apply to customer data they may come into contact with.
Twitter plans to fight misinformation with new label
Twitter is considering new labels for identified misinformation, with large tags on ‘harmfully misleading’ reports, and links to reference material to cross-check.
Google ‘to open up UK user data to US rules’ due to Brexit- report
Google is reportedly planning to to move accounts of its British users to a US jurisdiction, opening up the sensitive information of tens of millions of Brits to UK authorities.