{"id":282,"date":"2020-02-28T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/51.75.254.207\/Club-Freelance\/?p=282"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:32:04","slug":"weekly-news-digest-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Weekly News Digest #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Into mystery movies? Beware of spoilers.<\/strong> <\/h2>\n

Opening
\nscenes of a crime thriller.<\/p>\n

The
\nprotagonist, a beat detective with a good amount of personal problems, examines
\nthe room where the murder took place. One by one, the film introduces the
\nvarious characters in the story, and the question inevitably pops up into your
\nhead:<\/p>\n

Who’s done
\nit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well… Knives Out<\/a> and Star Wars<\/a> director Rian Johnson might have ruined the fun for all of us. According to the filmmaker, Apple doesn’t let bad guys use an iPhone<\/a> on screen for branding purposes. <\/p>\n

There you go. Now you can start ruling suspects out. <\/p>\n

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A week in retrospect<\/em><\/strong> <\/h2>\n

Speaking of
\ncrime…<\/p>\n

A new study on cloud security<\/strong> published this week revealed that only 57% of all business-sensitive data stored in the cloud is protected by encryption. <\/strong>This is particularly worrisome considering that 47% of businesses report having suffered a breach or failed a security test in the past year. <\/p>\n

Is your data at risk? This article<\/a> might help you figure it out. <\/p>\n

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Stop
\npointing that<\/em> at me.<\/p>\n

The debate
\naround the use of facial recognition<\/strong> to fight crime is heating up. In
\nresponse to mounting criticism, London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner
\nCressida Dick tried to calm down<\/a> the public by highlighting the benefits of the technology.<\/p>\n

There seems
\nto be a general misunderstanding, as the system currently being employed in the
\nUK doesn’t store the data it captures. It simply compares faces against a data
\nbase of known offenders, in real time.<\/p>\n

The images we post on Facebook and Instagram do much more to endanger our biometric privacy, assures the Met’s chief. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a global report<\/a> from communications firm Edelman revealed that 60% of people feels tech is advancing too fast… <\/p>\n

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And,
\nspeaking of advances…<\/p>\n

The MIT Technology Review<\/strong> has published its annual list<\/a> of technological innovations<\/strong> poised to have a big impact on solving the world’s problems. Here are the contenders:<\/p>\n