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Robust IoT Security is Critical to Growing the Ecosystem

During IOT Solutions World Congress Andrew Parkin-White, Mobile IoT Advisor of MEF was joined by an expert panel comprising Fernando Llobregat Baena of BICS, Charles Bernard of Cellusys, Martin Garner of CCS Insight and Sylvia Kechiche of the GSMA. The panel explored the issues and challenges of mobile IoT security.

Andrew Parkin-WhiteJanuary 30, 2020

Mobile First Markets Mobile Payments

Blockchain: Can Africa Successfully Leapfrog its Way into the Future?

Andrew Fassnidge, the founder of AppsAfrica and the upcoming Africa Tech Summit in Kigali, shares insights into the burgeoning blockchain scene in Africa, and discovers why the technology could be of huge benefit to the continent, and why educating governments and regulators will be key.

MEFJanuary 29, 2020

Mobile Advertising Mobile Content Personal Data

TIK TOK under review by European Privacy authorities

The Italian authority for Privacy (GPDP) has launched a co-ordinated action to review the risks linked with the TikTok app – an attempt to protect children’s privacy rights. TikTok is a social network that allows creating and sharing audios, videos, and pictures, used by millions of mostly young users worldwide.…

Dario BettiJanuary 29, 2020

Enterprise Communications

Chatbot Summit: You should treat your bots like film stars

Bots should ‘talk’ exactly like humans, right? Wrong. They should sound human but always nudge the conversation towards a desired outcome. Just like movie characters do, said one leading conversation designer at the Chatbot Summit in Berlin. What’s the most 21st century job you can think of? I challenge you…

Tim GreenJanuary 28, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news, 27th January

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Sourced from BICS’ global network, which connects over 700 operators and 500 digital service providers and carries over 50% of global data roaming traffic, the findings show an uplift in roaming…

MEFJanuary 27, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile news round-up, January 24th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Vodafone pulls out of Facebook currency play, Google’s latest measurement restrictions make life hard for mobile marketers, the fear of ubiquitous surveillance, how IoT betrays us and much more… Vodafone Group became the latest high-profile backer to…

MEFJanuary 24, 2020

Personal Data

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

On Monday the chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, backed EU proposals for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology while regulators assess potential risks, highlighting concerns around the use of face recognition in public areas for subject identification, saying: “Facial recognition is fraught with risks...

MEFJanuary 23, 2020

Mobile Advertising

MAD//Fest: Can eye get your attention?

Clicks seem like a clunky way to gauge the effectiveness of digital ads. Can eye tracking do better by measuring what people notice, not just what they do? Visitors to the MAD//Fest conference pondered the question. Tim Green observed… Every marketer knows we are living in the attention economy. In…

Tim GreenJanuary 22, 2020

Mobile Advertising Personal Data Regulation

RTB advertising: ICO threatens punishments, more work to be done

Six months after its first warning the UK Privacy Regulator (ICO) is making clear that the issues with RTB online advertising have not gone away, and it is now threatening to punish companies that are misbehaving. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising…

Dario BettiJanuary 21, 2020

Enterprise Communications

Chatbot Summit: Trillion dollar savings, and other key takeaways

In 2016, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said bots are the new apps. A little premature, perhaps. But there is a growing community of AI engineers, UI specialists and marketers that believe bots’ time will come. Tim Green joined more than 200 of them at last month’s Chatbot Summit in Berlin.…

Tim GreenJanuary 21, 2020

Robust IoT Security is Critical to Growing the Ecosystem

Blockchain: Can Africa Successfully Leapfrog its Way into the Future?

Chatbot Summit: You should treat your bots like film stars

MEF Member news, 27th January

Global Mobile news round-up, January 24th

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

MAD//Fest: Can eye get your attention?

Chatbot Summit: Trillion dollar savings, and other key takeaways

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