by tier1 | Aug 24, 2021 | News
Untangling data protection policy, post-Brexit. The General Data Protection Regulation was the result of the biggest overhaul in European data protection legislation in 20 years. GDPR sought to standardise data privacy across all EU member states along with those...
by tier1 | Jul 23, 2021 | eWaste, News
71% of the world’s population is governed by e-waste legislation, yet the latest figures from the UN report that globally, only 17% of our electrical and electronic devices were recycled in 2019. At June’s G7 summit, world leaders were met by Mount Recyclemore. A vast...
by tier1 | Jul 21, 2021 | IT Security, Uncategorised
Meeting the new challenges presented by the Internet of Things. It wasn’t so long ago that ‘personal data security’ meant shredding financial information and memorising your PIN. Fast-forward a decade and it has become necessary to share our sensitive data far and...
by tier1 | Jul 2, 2021 | News
The environmental, social & economic benefits of reducing our e-waste. In 2020, the world generated a record 53.6 million metric tonnes (mT) of e-waste – in just 12 months. Weighing more than all the commercial airliners ever built, that waste had an...
by tier1 | Jun 17, 2021 | News
How Green IT can help beat rising costs and supply issues. Our digital devices are a central part of life, even more so in the last year. They’ve kept us connected and helped millions of businesses diversify their operations to stay afloat. Most would agree that our...