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Tech for Good Live

Welcome back to a new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast! If you’re new here, run now and never look back, joking of course! We’re a podcast focused on chatting about using tech to have a positive social impact. If you’re a regular listener…God help you.

On this episode we’re talking about data leaks, the rise of the humble text message donation and a different type of world wide web (arachnophobes feel free to tune out at that point)

Fay Schofield is on hosting duties and she’s joined by TFGL regular Greg Ashton.

Our special guest is John Fitzgerald. John works on digital evolution at the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, working with charities to assess and improve their digital capability. John is also a trustee at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

If you’re a charity listening to this, John would love you to go get a Digital Checkup to help you to assess your organisation’s current digital maturity and how this compares to other organisations of a comparable size. The check up will help you to identify your strengths and the gaps your organisation is facing. Head to digital.checkup.scot to find out more.

Links from the episode:

Stat of the week

17 websites that were putting their customers’ accounts at risk of hijacking after a SIM-swap including WordPress:

After the T-Mobile breach, companies are preventing customers from securing their accounts - TechRadar

Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online - The Register

Charity news of the week

Text donations soared to record high last year, new figures show - ThirdSector

Tech news of the week

Apple dealt huge blow over iPhone App Store as judge instructs it to make major concessions to developers - Independent

And is anyone still using Apple pay:

Barely anyone is using Apple Pay in stores anymore - TechRadar

And finally…

Eight years and 2m arachnids later, spider silk fabrics go on show in London

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