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GDPR Prompts Flood Of Data Complaints
GDPR Prompts Flood Of Data Complaints
August 29, 2018  |  Regulation

The number of complaints filed with the U.K. data protection watchdog has more than doubled since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect...

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Very Good Security Raises $8.5M In Round Of Funding
Very Good Security Raises $8.5M In Round Of Funding
August 28, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Very Good Security (VGS), a startup working to protect data, told TechCrunch on Tuesday (August 28) that it raised $8.5 million in a venture round of fundraising....

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Lesara’s Agile Approach To Fashion Retail
Lesara’s Agile Approach To Fashion Retail
August 28, 2018  |  Retail

Berlin-based fashion retailer Lesara prides itself on thinking differently about apparel and being on trend. It doesn’t send its designers to Fashion Week and it...

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Tech Companies Step Up Data Privacy Lobbying Efforts
Tech Companies Step Up Data Privacy Lobbying Efforts
August 28, 2018  |  Data

When it comes to new privacy rules that technology companies are expecting to face, the likes of Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft have become more...

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Navigating The New World Of Digital Trust
Navigating The New World Of Digital Trust
August 27, 2018  |  Data

It is often a flexible, rarely precise concept, around which centuries of philosophical, political and artistic debates have revolved: trust. In business (specifically digital business...

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W3C’s Better Way To Reduce Checkout Friction
W3C’s Better Way To Reduce Checkout Friction
August 22, 2018  |  API

No one likes standing in lines, whether inside a brick-and-mortar store or in the virtual waiting room of a slow-moving or complicated online checkout process....

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Why It’s Time To Retire Knowledge-Based Authentication
Why It’s Time To Retire Knowledge-Based Authentication
August 21, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

What was the make and model of your first car? What was your elementary school? What is your mother’s maiden name? These are all questions...

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Payments’ Stranger Things
Payments’ Stranger Things
August 13, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind...

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The Fed Used Swipe Data To Assess Economic Impact Of Storms
The Fed Used Swipe Data To Assess Economic Impact Of Storms
August 10, 2018  |  Economy

To determine the economic impact of the big storms that hit the U.S. in 2017, the Federal Reserve turned to First Data Corp.’s swipe information...

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