by Alex Funkhouser
Is it reasonable to expect privacy in an end-to-end encrypted world?
If ever there was a divisive topic, it has to be that of privacy in the internet world. Many of us would consider our personal communication to be pretty benign and we wouldn’t care if the powers that be took a peek from time to time. Still others would ‘freak-out’ at the very idea of government agencies ‘spying’ on us.
Recent terrorist attacks have once again thrown the use of end-to-end encryption on consumer devices into the forefront of discussion between consumers, hardware and software manufacturers, carriers, and government agencies tasked with keeping us safe.
In the wake of the recent Westminster terror attack, many in government think it’s time for reasonable measures to take effect.
Read the full Sky News article: http://news.sky.com/story/messaging-apps-and-terror-seven-key-questions-10815589
by Alex Funkhouser
Originally published in NetworkWorld, a recent survey of 2,500 U.S. CIOs in 25 metropolitan areas revealed that as a group, the tech leaders rated their overall job satisfaction at 8.5 in a 10-point scale. Respondents from 10 cities reported above-average happiness, with Miami hosting the most content IT chiefs.
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by Alex Funkhouser
Could Trump’s executive orders on government hiring and immigration ‘freeze’ out cybersecurity talent and other strategic hires?
It’s no secret that cybersecurity and other IT considerations within state and local government have come under attack in recent years and illustrated some pretty serious failures in the systems that we depend on daily.
While federal agencies can still hire personnel necessary for national security reasons, it’s unknown how many of the more than 1,000 cybersecurity jobs in Washington won’t be exempt from the freeze.
Add to this the ban on immigration and movement of green card holders – from what would seem to be randomly selected countries in the middle-east – and we might be seeing even more pressure on the tech hiring sector.
Read full story here
by SherlockTalent
The fourth industrial revolution, marked by rapid innovation in automation, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology and other areas, is well and truly settled in.
Last week, it was the talk of Davos2017 (WEF), where Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella worried it could lead to social unrest or excessive regulation. “If we don’t get it right we are going to have a vicious cycle,” Mr. Nadella said at a panel on AI.
Economists assert that in the long run, at least, such revolutions don’t lead to mass unemployment. I’ve written previously about how automation creates more and new kinds of jobs. It is one reason America is approaching full employment, according to Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, despite more than two hundred years of industrialization.
Read the full article by Christopher Mims: christopher.mims@wsj.com
by SherlockTalent
There’s not doubt that Anazon’s business continues to grow. For instance, Amazon employed 117,300 full-time and part-time employees by the end of 2013, according to its annual report, and grew that number to 230,800 full-time and part-time employees by the end of 2015.
Youssef Squali, managing director and global head of internet and media equity research at Cantor Fitzgerald, reported Thursday. “I think it’s going to serve as a way to mend fences between Bezos and Trump,” Squali said. “That said, from a real employment standpoint — if you look at Amazon’s historical track record — they’ve grown their full-time employees anywhere between 35% to 45%. If you spread this out over 18 months, it gets you to around 36 percent.”
Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a daily briefing that “the president-elect was pleased to have played a role in that decision by Amazon,”
So, there we have it, what would seem to be a case of natural growth for Amazon, is spun into a political win and an olive branch with one announcement.
Either way, a lot of new employees are likely to be on-boarded at Amazon during the next 18 months — and that’s a good thing.
by SherlockTalent
As we step boldly into 2017, I’m reminded of what Edward R. Murrow once said “We are not descended from fearful men”.
I’m reminded also, that many of the candidates entering the workplace this year, have never lived in a world without the internet and have never known communication without social media.
And yet, I’m confronted regularly with workplace policies that seek to undermine the very way our Gen Z and millennials have come to know their ecosystem.
Millennials and Gen Z constitute about 30% of the world’s population and soon 25% of them will be in management roles.
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Source: Gen Z and Millennials Global Work Preferences Revealed, by Kathy Van Pelt
