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Uber drivers’ resistance and the gig economy – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast By Related Podcasts Listen to this podcast In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Sebastian Klovig Skelton to discuss the legal campaign by Uber drivers for the right to be recognised as workers In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Sebastian Klovig ...

Event-based IT architecture helps energy provider optimise its biomass supply chain and drive greater efficiencies, but questions remain about the fundamental sustainability of biomass as an alternative to coal.

‘Spy cops’ victims share ongoing data protection concerns Under Cover Policing Inquiry will consider whether the extensive amount of personal data collected about left-wing activists by the Special Demonstration Squad was justified, as witnesses question whether information about them is still being collected Share this item with your network: By Published: 23 Apr 2021 16:11 Undercover police officers collected and disseminated a “substantial volume of personal information” about l...

Japanese firm has a reckoning to face Gareth Corfield Fri 23 Apr 2021 // 14:15 UTC Share Copy Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up software bugs in its Horizon IT system, the Court of Appeal has said as it quashed 39 convictions this morning. Those 39 convictions were obtained by the Post Offices in-house lawyers who ignored their own barristers advice that the institutions behaviour was trampling over establis...

HMRC downplays significance of CEO email ‘questioning’ legal basis of loan charge policy A document dump of emails shared between HMRC officials has prompted loan charge campaigners to further question the legal footing of the government’s controversial disguised remuneration policy Share this item with your network: By Published: 23 Apr 2021 17:00 HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has sought to play down the significance of a private email in which its CEO appears to question the legal fo...

(0) TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 22, 2021 / GlobeX Data Ltd. (OTCQB:SWISF) (CSE:SWIS) (FRA:A2PN34) ("GlobeX" or the "Company"), the leader in Swiss hosted secure communications and secure data management, is pleased to report that it has received the final Distribution Agreement for a distribution deal in South Asia with a large telecommunications operator, for its Swiss hosted Sekur encrypted email, encrypted messaging and secure file-share solution. The Company is reviewing the agreement ...

Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The FireEye cybersecurity firm said Tuesday that Pulse Secure VPN had been compromised since June 2020. Researchers said "defense, government, and financial organizations around the world" were affected. FireEye said it suspects the Chinese government-linked UNC2630 hacking group was behind it. Hackers with suspected ties to the Chinese government have been targeting US and international government departments, ...

Suspected Chinese agents have been hacking US government agencies by exploiting a weakness in a VPN for months, report says wbostock@businessinsider.com (Bill Bostock) © Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A VPN logo seen on a smartphone. Not related to this story. Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The FireEye cybersecurity firm said Tuesday that Pulse Secure VPN had been compromised since June 2020. Researchers said "defense, government,...

Post-pandemic economic optimism from two B2B tech CEOs – Goldberg and Barrenechea Latest Blog Posts Related Content Does email security need a human solution or a tech solution? Why Microsoft’s $19bn acquisition of Nuance makes sense Download Current Issue The technology industry is starting to enjoy a lucky escape. What would have happened had vaccines against Sars-Cov-2 not been invented and deployed? There has been much talk of how technology has had a good pandemic. IT suppliers...

To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...