Zooming Into Remote Working
To quote every single email I have both sent and received in the past month, we are living in strange times. Many workplaces, schools, and friend groups have had their regular activities disrupted, and human contact is (temporarily) no longer an option. With nowhere else to go, the world has turned online. While there are […]
Time for TikTok? Security issues and the meteoric rise of TikTok
After its launch in 2017, video-sharing app TikTok has become one of the world’s most popular apps. Filling the cultural void left by the fall of Vine in 2016, it became beloved by teenagers all over the world almost overnight. Developed by Chinese company ByteDance, the app allows users to upload videos only a few […]
In the News: Saudi Arabia’s Controversial Absher App
In a story first broken by Insider, news of a malevolent function on a Saudi Arabian government app has been criticized over the past few weeks, culminating in members of the US senate pleading with Google and Apple to investigate [1]. The app, Absher has been available for download on iOS since 2015 and on […]
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