Mar 11, 2014
NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden has called on the technology industry to resist Internet surveillance. He urged delegates tot eh South by Southwest Festival in Texas to expand encryption for online services. This can be a powerful weapon against surveillance, he...
Feb 28, 2014
Millions of Internet users have been observed by the UK surveillance agency GCHQ, with assistance from the US National Security Agency (NSA), a report in the Guardian reveals. The agency has likely intercepted and stored images from Yahoo Webcam chats between 2008 and...
Feb 28, 2014
In a consumer electronics world dominated by smartphones, tablets and HDTVs, a new market category is generating South African consumer buying interest: safety devices. An Accenture survey of 1 000 SA consumers, focused on consumer technology spending and usage, found...
Dec 9, 2013
Today AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo joined together to propose principles for reforming government surveillance laws and practices. The companies also urged the president and the US Congress to take the lead on reform with an...
Apr 19, 2013
After a number of security incidents at its office park in Morningside, Sandton, a large international organisation that focuses primarily on engineering and construction market sectors, needed to deploy a remotely managed closed circuit television (CCTV) solution to...