Truth about AI and Sustainability - huge positive impact of AI on ESG UN goals, but energy consumed

AI will help a sustainable future - despite massive energy and water consumption. AI Keynote speaker

The TRUTH about AI. How AI will change your life - new AI book, beyond all the hype. Practical Guide

How AI Will Change Your Life: author, AI keynote speaker Patrick Dixon, Heathrow Airport WH Smiths

How AI will change your life - a Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World - Patrick Dixon is a Global Keynote Speaker on AI, Author of 18 BOOKS, Europe's Leading Futurist with 25 year track record advising large multinationals - CALL NOW +44 7768 511390

How AI Will Change Your Life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World - Patrick Dixon signs books and talks about key messages - future of AI, how AI will change us all, how to respond to AI in business, personal life, government. CALL +44 7768 511390

Future of Sales and Marketing in 2030: physical audience of 800 + 300 virtual at hybrid event. Digital marketing / AI, location marketing. How to create MAGIC in new marketing campaigns. Future of Marketing Keynote Speaker

TRUST is the most important thing you sell. Even more TRUE for every business because of AI. How to BUILD TRUST, win market share, retain contracts, gain customers. Future logistics and supply chain management. Futurist Keynote Speaker

Future of Artificial intelligence - discussion on AI opportunities and Artificial Intelligence threats. From AI predictions to Artificial Intelligence control of our world. What is the risk of AI destroying our world? Truth about Artificial Intelligence

How to make virtual keynotes more real and engaging - how I appeared as an "avatar" on stage when I broke my ankle and could not fly to give opening keynote on innovation in aviation for. ZAL event in Hamburg

"I'm doing a new book" - 60 seconds to make you smile. Most people care about making a difference, achieving great things, in a great team but are not interested in growth targets. Over 270,000 views of full leadership keynote for over 4000 executives

Futurist Keynote Speakers - how Futurist Keynotes transform events, change thinking, enlarge vision, sharpen strategic thinking, identify opportunities and risks. Patrick Dixon is one of the world's best known Futurist Keynote Speaker

Futurist Keynote Speaker: Colonies on Mars, space travel and how digital / Artificial Intelligence / AI will help us live decades longer - comment before Futurist keynote for 1400 at Avnet Silica event. Futurist Keynote Speaker on AI

Future of Travel and Tourism post COVID. Boom for live experiences beyond AI. What hunger for "experience" means for future aviation, airlines, hotels, restaurants, concerts halls, trends in leisure events, theme parks. Travel Industry Keynote Speaker

Quiet Quitters: 50% US workforce wish they were working elsewhere. How engage Quiet Quitters and transform to highly engaged team members. Why AI / Artificial Intelligence is not answer. How to tackle the Great Resignation. Human Resources Keynote Speaker

The Great Resignation. 50% of US workers are Quiet Quitters. They have left in their hearts, don't believe any longer in your strategy. 40% want to leave in 12 months. Connect with PURPOSE to win Quiet Quitters. Human Resources Keynote Speaker

Future of Human Resources. Virtual working, motivating hybrid teams, management, future of motivation and career development. How to develop high performance teams. HR Keynote Speaker

Speed of change often slower than people expect! I have successfully forecast major trends for global companies for over 25 years. Focus on factors driving long term changes, with agile strategies for inevitable disruptive events. Futurist Keynote Speaker

Agile leadership for Better Risk Management. Inflation spike in 2022-3 - what next? Expect more disruptive events, while megatrends will continue relentlessly to shape longer term future globally in relatively predictable ways. Futurist Keynote Speaker

Crazy customers! Changing customer expectations. Why many decisions are irrational. Amusing stories. Lessons for Leadership, Management and Marketing - Futurist Keynote Speaker VIDEO

Personal and corporate espionage - how to keep your company secrets secure - spying at work and how to prevent it

Futurist Keynote Speaker: Posts, Slides, Videos - CHANGE Your FUTURE - Motivational Keynote Speaker

"Spying at Work -- espionage, who, how, why, how to stop it"

Surveillance is getting easier. Bugs are getting better. The other day I was lecturing to twenty senior executives from a major international high technology company on the future. During a fast moving multimedia presentation, which included virtual reality, videoconferencing, Internet television, Cyberbanking, and a host of other related technologies, I bugged one of the participants. Right under their noses - as a demonstration in a country where such a demonstration of surveillance was legal. Even as they watched me pace around them, one of them was now carrying a minute transmitter capable of being picked up half a mile away. The device would have landed up being carried into the next meeting or the hotel bedroom. Devices today are so sensitive that even with a receiver the participants were unable to decide who was carrying the transmitter. Everyone could hear the sound of his or her own breathing. They were shocked.

Surveillance devices can be turned on/off from a mile away.

That means a board room will test negative when screened for surveillance devices just minutes before a vital meeting, and afterwards, although the bug may have been transmitting every word spoken during the entire course of the meeting. These kind of surveillance devices are extremely difficult to detect, requiring equipment that is complex, expensive, and time-consuming to use. In theory every room used for sensitive meetings needs a screening every time it is used. The only possible exception could be rooms that remain permanently locked except when used by a very select group of people. But a sophisticated screening to detect non-transmitting bugs may take several hours. Remember that most commercial breaches of security are created by staff themselves who agree to betray their own companies for money.

And just in case you were still under the delusion that a swept room is secure, devices are available using lasers which allow someone to listen to a conversation taking place half a mile away using equipment operating at that distance. Laser light reflects off window glass, carrying with it vibrations from noise inside the room.

Then there are the cameras.

A high quality colour video camera operating in bright or dim light can now be squeezed into a screw head. The centre of a Phillips screw is more than large enough to contain the lens of such a camera, which can therefore be concealed in any light switch, or any area of any room where a Phillips screw head is visible.

Networking means that every word spoken in one room in Australia can be heard in precise detail in any other country of the world day and night, using local telephone calls and Internet encryption.

Most companies are still in the Stone Age when it comes to commercial security. Most of their attention has focused on such things as password protection for systems, or identity passes at the security gate. Those measures are useless against the constant threat of commercial espionage -- a boom industry judging by the rapidly growing turnover of company making these devices. Counter espionage has often become the same technologies turned against one's own staff. Bugging of friends, rooms, cars or even homes has now become a routine part of commercial self protection. Of course one of the big markets for all this is the divorce industry with spouses trying to catch each other out, or to lay jealous fears to rest.

So what happens to privacy?

Privacy died a long time ago. In some countries use of concealed transmitters is against the law yet these things are widely available for decreasing cost. When it comes -- say -- to mergers or acquisitions, or other price sensitive market information, a single phrase may acquire a commercial value of several million dollars all more. Thus theft of "words spoken" has become one of the highest value crimes that can possibly be committed. We urgently need international agreement that covert electronic surveillance is illegal except for enforcing law and order. The sale of these devices should be banned in every nation - they can all be bought in the UK with total freedom. The market will still be there but it will send a clear message.

So how can you protect yourself?

Firstly, you should assume that whatever room you are using is insecure unless otherwise proven. You should also assume that participants in meetings may occasionally be wired themselves, and that participants leaving a room in the course of a meeting may be hearing every word said after they have left. It's the oldest trick in the book. Regard with suspicion any small gift that the donor might expect you to keep in your office, or put in your pocket. Examples included expensive pens, paper weights or any other object. Strangely enough, a meeting in a restaurant which is busy and noisy could actually turn out to be safer than your own boardroom or videoconference suite.



Related news items:
Newer news items:
Older news items:


Thanks for promoting with Facebook LIKE or Tweet. Really interested to read your views. Post below.

Join the Debate! What are your own views?


?

 

Our cookie policy

We use cookies for statistical purposes. To comply with the e-Privacy Directive we need to ask your consent to place these cookies on your computer.

Your use of this site indicates acceptance of these terms. I accept I Decline