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Retailers have become so adept at capturing and analyzing consumer data that there is now a real risk that they might alienate customers by revealing just much they know about our lifestyle, habits, and preferences.
So if retailers want their big data investments to pay off, they must tread carefully. Big data exploitation in retail is no longer restricted to tracking and responding to broad trends; itrsquo;s become very personal. Which is great if the result is that customers find exactly what they were looking for; less so if it feels intrusive or invasive.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

And just 6% say they're fully prepared for GDPR Most of the UK's top businesses are underprepared for new data protection rules, while 10 per cent have no response plan for a cyber attack, according to a government survey.…

If you couldn't make it to this year's massive tabletop fest, we've got you covered.

Sucky security leaves MIT cryptoboffins red-faced Cunning hackers have successfully duped investors out of almost $500,000 after compromising the servers of the online currency platform Enigma.…

Google partners with Nabisco, ships code to AOSP, and posts system images.

Departing eclipse watchers are causing traffic jams from Portland to Charleston.

Gill us now Netcraft 'net watchers have cast a fly over the lake of generic TLDs, and turned up the first .fish domain dedicated to – wait for it – phishing.…

Groupize denies report by researchers at Kromtech, but locks down repo anyway Another day, another unsecured AWS storage bucket leaking corporate data, this time from hotel booking service Groupize.…

Your Amazon Echo could live a double life as an echo-location device Researchers at the University of Washington have devised a way of conducting surreptitious sonar surveillance using home devices equipped with microphones and speakers.…

Plenty of other teams have some security responsibility, so why not end the overlap? Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea, because plenty of other people in your organisation already overlap with their responsibilities, or could usefully do their jobs.…

An enthusiast's gaming laptop that leaves (almost) nothing to be desired.

Like many of my high-tech colleagues I am an avid Game of Thrones viewer. However, its appeal is much broader.

The series is set in a historical fictional medieval world made of seven kingdoms, all struggling for power in a tense battle between good and evil. No character is safe, and this unpredictably delights audiences by keeping them on their toes not being able to guess what comes next.In fact, Game of Thrones shattered HBOrsquo;s viewership record with more thannbsp;10 million global fans tuning in for its season 7 debut in July. No doubt this record-breaking show is the crown jewel of HBO and guarded like Fort Knox, right?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Johnson & Johnson is on a losing streak, with more than 5,000 cases to come.

Your plastic pal who's psychotic Robots are increasingly common in the 21st Century, both on the factory floor and in the home, however it appears their security systems are anything but modern and high tech.…

Japanese anime features generation ships and a far-future Earth ruled by kaiju.

DOJ described scheme as “one of the more sophisticatedrdquo; they'd ever seen.

Latest video “was self-reported as a re-enactment of the seizure of evidence.”

QuakeCon news confirms that all will land on either PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, or both.

Despite warrant's language, feds say they didn't want disruptj20.org visitor logs.

Rigged a random number generator and tried to cash in The lottery sysadmin who fooled around with random numbers has a new variable to consider: how much up to 25 years he'll have to serve of his latest sentence.…

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