Is COVID-19 Changing Facial Recognition for Good?
Last month, a video from a smart doorbell of a delivery man doing a quick hopscotch after dropping off the package went viral. The ease with which it was shared as a ...
Public Health and Misinformation During COVID-19
A slew of misinformation has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. False claims about how the virus spreads, how it can be prevented and steps that governments are taking have been making their way ...
BYOD Challenges and Secure Messaging
BYOD is complicated. On the one hand it saves businesses the hassle of having to supply corporate devices to employees and it gives employees the freedom to use a device of their ...
HIPAA, Telehealth and COVID-19
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently relaxed HIPAA enforcement: they won’t penalize providers who use tools for telehealth that are not HIPAA compliant. It makes ...
Are We Giving Up Our Privacy?
Every so often a tool takes off that suddenly everyone is using to communicate—one day it’s Google Hangouts, the next it’s Slack. Right now, that tool is Zoom, even though Skype and ...
Secure Messaging and Student Health During COVID – 19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant negative impact on college students’ mental health. While students’ mental health is already a concern for universities – 40% of undergraduates reported feeling depressed within ...
Technology as a Solution
“Technology and Science are out there to serve humanity.” That was the point one of the speakers made at February’s OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem, Israel. Vaporstream CEO, Galina Datskovsky, attended ...
Zoom, Meet Privacy
This week, multiple cities, including New York and Washington DC, banned public schools from using Zoom, and the FBI issued a warning about the videoconferencing tool’s privacy and security breaches at the ...
Building Trust in Communications: In Conversation with Safe House Project
Earlier this week, Vaporstream CEO Galina Datskovsky and Safe House Project co-founder Brittany Dunn connected to talk about trust in communications, and the role technology plays in building that trust. The two ...
Move over Purell, Is Your Data Safe?
With so many people now working remotely, cyber hygiene is especially important because people are often handing private, sensitive information at home. Complicating that, there’s also been a rise in hackers targeting ...
