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As we celebrate the beginning of the digital decade, most of us usually take time to clean out our homes and get organised.
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As we celebrate the beginning of the digital decade, most of us usually take time to clean out our homes and get organised.

Today’s students will be the first generation with a digital footprint from birth. This can be seen as a major threat for them.

Silicon Valley is known for being a region in the USA that houses the most significant number of innovative technology companies.

Liberty Group (“Liberty”) released a communication on 18 June 2018, advising that “it has been subjected to illegal and unauthorised access to its IT infrastructure”.

Have you ever downloaded an app on your phone and looked at the permissions that the app requests.

No, I don’t mean those midnight snacks you’ve been sneaking. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user’s computer.

You are probably reading this article on your smart phone, which has a digital footprint of all the people and entities in your life who you have interacted with online.
If you think your boss is a bit nosy and intrusive be thankful that you don’t work for a state-owned enterprise in China.

The world is running out of space. Parks are becoming buildings, highways are ploughing through farmland and your Blackberry that could store hundreds of photos has turned into your iPhone that can store thousands.

May 25 has come and gone; we are all very aware of the GDPR, the European Union’s new set of data privacy laws.