Q&A with Ivana Bartoletti: How can we protect our security and privacy during the pandemic?

Under the government’s new policy of contact tracing, millions of people in the UK will soon be asked to monitor their movements to limit the spread of coronavirus. While this is clearly a vital step in controlling the pandemic, we should stop to assess the risks of tracking everything from where we have been to our social interactions. In a bid to decipher the key issues in this debate, we’ve asked Ivana Bartoletti, Technical Director of Privacy at Deloitte and author of the upcoming book An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI, to share her expertise.

2020_3Tamara CincikMay 19, 2020Ivana Bartoletti, Security, Privacy, Data, Tracking

British Fashion Industry Manufacturers and Designers are uniting to produce Masks and Personal Protective Clothing (PPE) for Front Line Staff during COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Kate Hills, Founder, Make It British: “We are working on finding all of the UK manufacturers that can switch production to provide an end-to-end solution for PPE that is made locally. Whilst the government is currently concentrating on importing these products, this is a short term solution. Once these resources dry up, which they will do as global demand increases, we will need to tap into the manufacturing base that we have in the UK. We have had amazing support from a diverse range of manufacturers and I have every confidence that the UK textile industry is able to adapt and be agile enough to cope with the challenges ahead.”

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