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PolyU forum tackles cybersecurity issues

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Rapid advances in digital technology are transforming most aspects of modern life, but they are also raising some well justified concerns.

As often as not, those doubts centre on the protection of data and guaranteeing the individual’s right to privacy, issues which appear secondary in the general rush towards online commerce, fintech, and social media culture in the virtual world.

However, the importance of addressing such matters and finding the best way forward was the subject of a recent double feature which brought together some leading names in the field.

Billed as the University of Waterloo Dean’s Public Lecture cum The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Knowledge Transfer Forum on Cybersecurity and Privacy, the evening’s keynote speaker explained how blockchain developments are helping to make certain types of data transfer more secure.

But the experts taking part in the subsequent panel discussion also made no secret of the fact that, as things stand, regulatory controls are lacking and, generally speaking, there are all kinds of holes in the system.

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