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• Facebook’s high-stakes privacy gamble goes to Dublin court

  A high-wire gamble with billions in compensation at stake for European internet users – part of a complex case between Facebook and the Irish information commissioner – hides challenge to the unlawfulness of US state internet surveillance  Continue Reading

• The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences

  Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules  Continue Reading

• A Good American: a personal take on mass surveillance

  Director Friedrich Moser draws some conclusions on mass surveillance from his groundbreaking documentary on the work of NSA whistleblower, Bill Binney  Continue Reading

• It’s not too late to turn the tide on Investigatory Powers Bill

  The government has set David Anderson QC an almost impossible task in his review of the sweeping bulk powers proposed in the Investigatory Powers Bill – but it is not too late to make a difference  Continue Reading

• A day in the life of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

  Britain's most secretive court combined the surreal with the deadly serious, as it debated the legality of bulk data collection by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and the CIO: a new model for IT

  The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain  Continue Reading

• Graph databases: What are the benefits for CIOs?

  With enterprise interest in graph databases on the rise, Clive Longbottom explains why some businesses are favouring them over relational setups  Continue Reading

• Why it pays to get messy with big data

  Big data does not have to be perfect to give useful insights. The ability to make messy data usable quickly could become business critical  Continue Reading

• Democratise internet of things data analytics with virtualisation

  Accenture Labs authors contend that data virtualisation can unlock business value from the IoT  Continue Reading

• Why the IT dinosaurs should be planning for extinction

  The planned merger of two dinosaurs of the hardware world, Dell and EMC, offers a useful insight into how to manage corporate extinction  Continue Reading

• Driving digital productivity in the UK

  There is a need for British businesses to improve their adoption of digital technologies  Continue Reading

• Sale, spin-off or stay put? What should EMC do next?

  With reports suggesting some major changes may be afoot at EMC, Clive Longbottom looks at the reasons why  Continue Reading

• Apply data governance to maximise data insights

  How IT can apply data governance to help the business trust analytics insights and gain the most value from big data  Continue Reading

• Patent trolls must not be allowed to encroach on Europe

  So-called patent trolls may soon come under attack in the US as part of government-backed efforts against abusive intellectual property litigation  Continue Reading

• Time for DevOps to get out of the weeds

  Software and service providers face a battle to deliver new products, features and capabilities faster than ever  Continue Reading