Information Policy

A German City of Industry Gets a Modern Makeover

The German company Siemens is launching an ambitious adaptive reuse project to revitalize its historic corporate campus, with a modern data-collecting twist.

Lithuanian cabinet dropping idea of online voting in elections

The Lithuanian government is abandoning the idea of introducing online voting in elections over security concerns. Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius says the government is dropping the plan due to growing cyber-security threats worldwide, cited LETA/BNS.

 

Global 'smart city' network promises enhanced collaboration

A new civic technology-focused network from the magazine and research firm Cities Today is trying to open communication between city officials from more than 170 cities around the world, all of whom are all trying to solve the same problem: how technology can be introduced effectively and ethically into urban communities.

Measure Together

Traditionally, government agencies monitor the living environment via monitoring networks with often expensive reference devices. Due to the rapid innovation in the field of ICT and the development of low-cost sensors, everyone can better measure the quality of the living environment themselves. And that happens more and more.

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Google is using a “surreptitious mechanism” to leak personal data to advertisers, according to new evidence presented to the Irish Data Protection Commission as part of an ongoing investigation.

Google siphoning personal data to advertisers, new evidence suggests

Google is using a “surreptitious mechanism” to leak personal data to advertisers, according to new evidence presented to the Irish Data Protection Commission as part of an ongoing investigation.