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Defining identity digitally is a challenge confronting humanity. Presenting your passport at a customs gate and peering into the camera is not possible online (maybe it should be), but increasingly it is the level of assurance that is needed to facilitate important online transactions.

But with personal data a prize sought by businesses and government alike, protecting online identity and data are topics that have almost three-quarters of us changing our online behaviour.

Yet while we want privacy, we also want convenience – the seamless sharing of data with companies we trust, when it suits us.

It’s a conundrum far from being resolved, and one we explore this week as the push for self-sovereign identity continues, underpinned by the sense that surely there's a better way than our e-mail inbox being the key to the kingdom.

In other news:

Microsoft and Oracle team up to take on Amazon's cloud
Getting empathetic with customer experience
Keeping safe on public Wifi (you know you sometimes use it!)
See, snap, buy: Social shopping gathers pace

Enjoy the read,

Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.co.nz

DIGITAL IDENTITY

Challenging the boundaries of digital identity

In the age of identity theft, deep fakes and endless security breaches, proving you’re you – and keeping your data private – is new Catch 22…

In 2019 it very much seems as if our digital identities, and the data attached to them, are up for grabs.

"When it comes to checking citizen’s Facebook pages for dodgy behaviour, the government might be a little late to the game: employers have been doing it for years."

[Read more]

CLOUD

Best of both clouds: Microsoft and Oracle announce multi-cloud deal

The new direct connectivity between public clouds lets users combine the technology of both services seamlessly…

Announced last week, a new deal between Microsoft and Oracle lets users migrate and run workloads across the public Microsoft Azure and Oracle Clouds.

Cloud related service offerings will need to focus on delivering solutions that combine experience and execution with hyperscale providers’ offerings.

[Read more]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Adding empathy to the metrics mix

AI empathy tool to guide ethical business decisions…

If Pegasystems gets its way, empathy will soon be part of the metrics mix for big business.

“We’ve got the ‘should we’, the ‘can we’ and then the AI telling us it can detect a need in the customer.”

[Read more]

CYBERSECURITY

Public Wifi security hole plugged

Making public hotspots secure with Wifi protection…

When you’re facing a long wait at the airport and still have plenty of work to do it can be tempting to log onto the public Wifi network, security be damned.

The risk posed by accessing public Wifi is definitely not worth the reward.

[Read more]

ECOMMERCE

Getting social with selling

When eBay and Instagram have a baby…

From Burberry selling its new fashion collection on Instagram and WeChat to Amazon’s visual search partnership with Snapchat, social commerce is big news.

The initiatives all seek to remove pain points from the customer buying journey.

[Read more]

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