privacy

Facing Up To The Future

With facial recognition technology now widely used in law enforcement and in consumer devices, has privacy become a relic of the past?

Asia’s Rising Scientists: Tanzima Hashem

Tanzima Hashem is working on computational techniques that would allow us to use location-based services without giving away our private personal data.

The Science Of Identity

Fingerprint and retina scanners may have entered popular culture, but how widely accepted are biometric technologies and what are the issues concerning their use?

Trust: The Most Important Business Currency

While negotiating the trade-offs between data protection and the business value of data, companies should remember that trust is the underlying issue.