Until recently, criminals were the main concern of customers using the internet to make electronic payments. The public believed that malware and hacking were the domain of people on the wrong side of the law. The revelation that many governments and their secret services – the ‘good guys’ – were also gaining access to millions of computers and other electronic devices was a huge shock.
November 3, 2014
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Until recently, criminals were the main concern of customers using the internet to make electronic payments. The public believed that malware and hacking were the domain of people on the wrong side of the law. The revelation that many governments and their secret services – the ‘good guys’ – were also gaining access to millions of computers and other electronic devices was a huge shock. So, perhaps it was not surprising that the website %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternalwww.dictionary.comVisit www.dictionary.comfalsehttp://www.dictionary.com/falsefalse%> declared that ‘privacy’ was the word of 2013. Companies have been aware for years that personal data is like gold. It can be mined, sorted and sold as a product. It is so valuable that companies are prepared to provide services for no charge, in return for information about the people using them. Some customers are completely happy to hand over this information, seeing this as part of the modern world. Others are more reluctant. In ‘My life, my data, my private life’, Anne-Marie Hartmann of Oberthur Technologies looks at this new business model, where the customer is the product. Described as a marketing innovation evangelist, she will give the audience insights into this increasingly critical area of business.
‘Privacy in the digital society (Secure identity, fraud, ID management)’, 9:30 - 17:00, Room 3
Wavetronix is adopting a low-key presence at this year’s ITS World Congress in Vienna, and will be appearing in the ITS America pavilion. The company’s message, ‘Rise Above the Road,’ encourages transportation professionals to move away from loops and embrace SmartSensor HD as an accurate alternative. But the secondary message is a declaration that SmartSensor HD is now an active part of European ITS programmes, with significant deployments in Denmark, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom. “Agencies under
CA Traffic and Techspan Systems have combined industry expertise to present CA’s latest Traffic Warning Sign. The product uses CA’s radar technology but combines it with the well-established technical expertise of sister company Techspan Systems.
The fully compliant warning sign uses the latest driving technology and surface mount LEDs. The product is reliable and low powered, with the options of mains or battery with solar or wind powered recharging. Designed to be lightweight, easy to transport and ins
The Eutrain (European Transport Research Area International) conference on international co-operation in transport research is aimed at gathering European and global scientific, policy making and business communities to discuss themes and instruments for the promotion of future international cooperation in the field of transport research.
The conference takes place in Brussels on 9 and 10 October and is organised within the framework of the Eutrain project, an FP7 project funded by the European Commissio
France’s Citilog and Signal Group of the US yesterday signed a ‘strategic alliance’ to combine their technologies, with the aim of delivering advanced ITS video analytics solutions to the North American market. Citilog will combine its capabilities in video analytics with Signal Group’s expertise in traffic controllers, with the first product designed to reduce traffic waiting times at intersections through the integration of real-time queue length calculation into adaptive intersection control.
