IT Essentials: What role does tech play in UK unrest?

And should it answer for it?

Tom Allen
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IT Essentials: What role does tech play in UK unrest?

Social media must play by the rules.

Regulation and legislation are often portrayed as blockers to innovation; tech company execs certainly argue so. But IT leaders I've talked to take a different view. Two senior IT professionals,...

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