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This review sets out the findings from our cross-Financial Services change management review which looked at how financial firms manage technology change, the impact of change failures and the practices utilised within the industry to help reduce the impact of incidents resulting from change management.

Saying “The vibes are off” no longer cuts it, if it ever really did. Twitter is broken/has been broken/was broken/perhaps has always been broken, but more people than before seem to be draped in mo…

Plans to use face recognition technology at public events raise issues about civil liberties.

The European Commission has called on online platforms to detect and label AI-generated content to tackle disinformation. Can the EU keep pace with tech developments?

The European Commission has called on online platforms to detect and label AI-generated content to tackle disinformation. Can the EU keep pace with tech developments?

In their new book, MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson argue that society’s powerful gatekeepers need to stop being mesmerized by tech billionaires.

“As with many industries, there are areas of the sector that remain very male-orientated. Whilst this offers an opportunity for women to disrupt and really make a difference, they can’t do so if they’re not in the room.” Google Cloud’s UKI MD Helen Kelisky shares her career journey to date, and what can be done to encourage more women into tech.

Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.

February's Digital Future's event focused on the topic of Monetisation of Data, and saw guest speakers, Dr Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen of the British…

During 2022 the data protection authorities in several EU countries have published decisions banning the use of Google Analytics (GA). The Austrian…

The tech industry is having a moment to say the least. There are tens of thousands of people who worked at brand name, "secure" tech jobs that are out of work.

Plus leaked stripe results, India and Singapore link payment systems and why you should never outsource your ledger to your payments processor.

Update on the ICO's enforcement approach for communication service providers The ICO published an update on 2 February 2023 to clarify its position…

What you might not know about us here at Deloitte is although we are more well known for supporting large organisations, we also have a long history…

Our contribution to the discussion on how to pay remote employees.

In recent times, the so-called Big Data collection and analytics has profoundly changed the way of doing business, making their use almost essential…

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

This essay originally ran in August of 2015. This “classic” is one of the most popular issues and has received a lot of comments, so thought we would share it again as a reminder to us all. Talk is constant and pretty “cheap” these days. Anyone, anywhere, anytime can post a comment on the many social media sites and talk, talk, talk. There are over 500 million tweets each day on Twitter [...]

Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.

Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s “fiscal event” last September was widely perceived as a disaster, but at its heart was a kernel of undoubted truth: there are

This jobs Friday, we look to the tech sector, where companies are laying off thousands of workers in a rapid reversal of their pandemic-era hiring boom. What effects could tech layoffs have on the broader economy?For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

This post looks at how ethnicity data collection has changed, the challenges the government has faced over the years, and the importance of collecting ethnicity data in a consistent way.

The Ethical Explorer Pack is your go-to tool for building tech that values fundamental human rights, empowers users, and creates healthy online experiences.

Experts talk about the rise of TikTok, the power of social media, and why we should be cautious about artificial intelligence.

Amazon.com: The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt eBook : Aral, Sinan: Kindle Store

ICO says AI-driven discrimination can lead to job rejections or being wrongfully denied bank loans or benefit

We're in the biggest cost of living crisis in decades. At @CitizensAdvice, we see how that's playing out in people's lives each and every day.We want to share those insights, so we're holding a 🚨Cost of Living briefing🚨 at 11am on 28th July. Join here: https://t.co/Ac4SxeEFog— Morgan Wild (@morgan_wild) June 22, 2022

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"The pandemic has certainly forced everybody to reevaluate their personal lives. The great resignation has now become the great reevaluation in this context of this study. If you look across the major employers in Canada, across all industries, the banks, insurance, telcos etc. the job postings are not getting the activity that they're looking for. The roles are staying open longer. And I think it is going to force them to really look at investing in modern technology or advanced technology to solve some those problems.

Tech can be helpful but governments burn public trust when they legitimize experiments like COVID Alert without providing responsible stewardship.