Apple says it is to change the default settings of its iPhone to stop hackers and others unlocking devices without proper legal authorisation. There are two distinct issues that need to be looked at with regard to this announcement from Apple. One is a technology issue...
Recent focus has been on the relationship and balance between our privacy and the business model behind many of our favourite social media tools. Whether we realise or not we’ve allowed our privacy to be used and sometimes abused, not for our benefit or under...
Recent news calls for consumers to own and control their data, decide who to share it with and have an option to get something in return. Scentrics, a leading British cybersecurity and machine learning company along with research from UCL, Computer Science has made a major...
Jerome Mohamed, Scentrics Head of Operations shares some thoughts on this week’s news. It’s been a bad week for Facebook, Cambridge Analytica et al but a great week for privacy awareness. More of us now recognise the power we hand over to tech giants just by...
Looking back Mark Zuckerberg made an assumption that people would use the tools Facebook provides responsibly. He has ended up being taught a painful life lesson about the world around us. Since then he has been quoted as saying that this was “wrong in retrospect”. With...
The news that Google is facing a class-action law suit in the UK for collecting personal data without permission back in 2011, again makes us confront an unpleasant truth. Like Ostriches we stick our head in the sand and pretend we have a measure of...
The Times recently led, with the news that children are being exposed to an ever-growing barrage of gambling adverts online. The issue of children being exposed to a huge increase in gambling adverts is something that governments need to take almost as seriously as the recent...
Scentrics launches tools for developers to build encryption into any app Scentrics, a leading UK cybersecurity and machine learning company, has announced the launch of its Software Development Kit (SDK) and Application programming interface (API). It’s the world’s first plug-and-go encryption API, allowing developers to easily...
Scentrics — a UK-based cybersecurity and machine learning company — has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademarks Office for 'Mobile Device Security', one of the vital ingredients of its unique solution for ensuring both the privacy of your digital life...
We have published two new videos on the Scentrics site to give a quick introduction to how we enable privacy for your digital lifestyles. The first is a top-level introduction to what we do at Scentrics: everything you need to know in less than two minutes. [video...
