XBASE Technologies Blog

Canada’s PIPEDA: Does it affect me?

If you’re a Canadian or someone who does business in Canada, the short answer is yes. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act or PIPEDA holds organizations in Canada accountable for the protection of all collected personally identifiable information (PII) and gives Canadians recourse if ever their PII is compromised.

Productivity tip: Email automation

If you’ve ever received what looked like a personalized email from a huge corporation, there’s a good chance it was actually written using an email automation platform. This technology saves time and money while strengthening customer relationships, and contrary to popular belief, it is well within most SMB budgets.

Tracking data use on Android devices

Android devices are among the most feature-rich gadgets currently available. The vast majority can connect to mobile networks, but unfortunately, many service plans limit the amount of data you can use each month. If you want to avoid paying overage fees or suffering from slow connection speeds, you need to monitor how much data you’re using.

Why smartphones may be your best cybersecurity shield

How’s this for an urban legend: An IT guy, upset after being fired from a software company, infiltrates his ex-employer’s network by using a colleague’s username and password, terminates 23 AWS servers of information (consequently deleting massive amounts of critical customer data and their redundancies), and makes the company lose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of service contracts.

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