Scrap the telecoms bill, FMF urges

Scrap the telecoms bill, FMF urges

The adage “don’t fix what ain’t broken” is apt advice for drafters of the Electronic Communications Amendment (ECA) Bill This is according to the Free Market Foundation (FMF), which has penned the following article: Industry consensus is that...

Who’s who on Twitter?

US president Donald Trump is the most followed world leader on Twitter, with 52-million followers on his @realDonaldTrump account which has more than doubled since taking office on 20 January 2017. According to the newly released 2018 Twiplomacy study by BCW, Trump...

Facebook faces UK fine for privacy breaches

Facebook faces a £500 000.00 (R8,9-million) for breaching data privacy from The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent regulator for data protection and information rights law. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has published...

Malware strikes geopolitical targets, Asian APTs

During the second three months of 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers observed an active landscape of advanced persistent threat (APT) operations, based mainly in Asia and involving both well-known and less familiar threat actors. A number of groups targeted or timed...

Future plans for Musk’s cave-rescue sub

Elon Musk’s “kid-size submarine” may have been too late to contribute to the rescue of 12 children and their soccer coach who were trapped in a Thai cave, but the technology could be useful in the future. SpaceX engineers worked through the weekend...

Saving for the future is getting harder in SA

South Africans still don’t save enough and current economic conditions in the country mean that it is only going to get harder to save for the future. This is according to Old Mutual Investment Group Economic Strategist, Rian le Roux, who said that the stagnant...