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Aussies feel trapped by the digital economy with a new online survey finding that the majority of consumers feel they have to share personal data if they want to use digital services - but they don’t trust these organisations to protect that data.

GUEST OPINION by Geoff Schomburgk, Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Yubico:  On social media, in business and in the media, we’re increasingly hearing how companies should be protecting themselves against cyberattacks. Whilst we’re all at risk of having our credentials stolen, there are certain groups of individuals that need protecting more than others. Overseas, these include numerous organisations and individuals that are defending the freedom of the press, human rights and election security throughout many vulnerable regions where cyberattacks pose an enormous risk. In Australia, the upcoming Federal election on May 21st poses a lot of opportunities for bad state actors to interfere and spread misinformation, as has been documented by activities reported about US and UK elections. It is critical that security solutions are freely available and exist to help protect Australian electoral staff and political parties from such attacks.

Not only is TeamViewer marking 10 years in Australia while launching its new ANZ regional office in Adelaide, it has also marked the second year of its Mercedes F1 sponsorship deal by showcasing two impressively advanced yet simple to implement AR use cases in warehousing, pick and packing, mechanical repairs, virtual assistance, F1 operations and more, with the event video and demos a definite must-watch.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Primary Comms Group has been launched, integrating three strategic specialist agencies into a single, exciting brand that will deliver creative design, strategic communication, marketing, government relations, and stakeholder engagement services.

Smith Brothers Media is a full-service digital agency that is passionate about helping great businesses grow and improve. CEO James Smith spoke with iTWireTV about how businesses of all sizes can make their communication channels work at peak efficiency.

Audio-visual digitisation services bureau DAMsmart launches its film and video tape digitisation services in Amazon Web Services Marketplace—the first of its kind.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced the launch of the Media Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake's powerful data sharing technology; cutting-edge standards of privacy and governance; Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-specific datasets. The Media Data Cloud enables marketers, publishers and data and ad technology businesses to unlock their data for identity, insights, activation and measurement across the advertising ecosystem.

The Conti ransomware gang has issued a somewhat hilarious warning to media outlets which reported quotes from ransom negotiations between the ransomware gang and one of its victims, JVCKenwood.

'The 20th edition of the Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook 2020-2024 report from PwC has arrived, showing that to the end of December 2020, total Australian advertising spend contracted by 8.0% to A$15.4 billion, and consumer spend dropped by 1.9% to A$42.5 billion - with plenty more detail to share, so read on!

COMPANY NEWS by Matthew Fowler, Managing Director for Asia-Pacific, VIQ Solutions: According to internal research conducted by VIQ Solutions, approximately 15 percent of the audio recorded by organisations, courts, law enforcement and other agencies including government bodies, is currently being digitised.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released another research report in its ‘Communications and media in Australia’ series, with headline figures showing 8.2 million terabytes of data downloaded, 9.6 billion voice minutes and more.

Global independent platform for ad management, data-driven creative, and unified insights, Flashtalking has appointed former Programmatic Director AUNZ at DoubleVerify, James Whitbread, as its JAPAC Sales Director.

Australian media firm Nine Entertainment is continuing to stay mum as far as public statements on the network attack on its Sydney offices go. It is more or less certain now that Windows ransomware known as MedusaLocker was used in the attack.

Kate Toon is an award-winning powerhouse of energy, talent, business smarts, excellent advice, great courses and more, and it was a delight to talk to someone so switched on about everything digital!

Autodesk has stayed ahead of the curve over nearly the last four decades to become a true powerhouse in products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education and entertainment industries, and we spoke to its Australian MD during the last day of its 2020 conference.

Oh, Canada! Australia's top telco is launching a dedicated Toronto Point-of-Presence to support increasing demand for connectivity into APAC from Canadian finance, tech and startup industries - aboot time!

Australia’s telecommunications regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released its research program for the 2020 to 2021 financial year, with its primary focus on consideration of how current and future developments in the communications and media landscape will impact public interest outcomes and its regulatory role.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION by David Frost, PR Deadlines:  Recently, my deluge of overnight emails included one that looked suspicious. I came very close to deleting it.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION by David Frost, PR Deadlines:  Recently, my deluge of overnight emails included one that looked suspicious. I came very close to deleting it.

VENDOR ANNOUNCEMENT:  Global media and marketing company Crowd Media Holdings Limited (ASX:CM8 | FWB:CM3) has joined forces with London-based VITAL Innovations Ltd.