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How re-thinking data security could help the most vulnerable A displaced Syrian woman and her children carry food supplies in an Iraqi refugee camp. Accurately and safely keeping track of refugees and who has received food aid is a major challenge for humanitarian organisations. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Humanitarian organisations like the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are working to digitalise their operations to reach more people in need, but data breaches could expose them to added dangers. A new research collaboration is tryi...

Date Time Parental control apps behaving badly Researchers from EPFL and Spain’s IMDEA Software Institute and IMDEA Networks Institute, have found that many parental control applications collect and share data without consent, and fail to comply with regulatory requirements. Parental control applications available on Android through the Google Play Store are used by parents to monitor and limit their children’s online activities and even physical location; for example, to examine a child’s web browsing history, to block or limit their access to certain websites or features, or through s...