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Cloud adoption by Enterprises will\naccelerate ahead of already aggressive migration plans<\/strong>. Some businesses are estimating more than $100 million\ndollar in annual savings by moving critical business applications and IT infrastructure\nto the public cloud and retiring their traditional on-premise data centers. The\ncost savings are partially gained by cutting license costs of hardware and\nsoftware running in their traditional data centers. However, it appears there\nare even larger cost savings by IT support staff reductions which have been\ngetting even more expensive to deploy due to COVID-19 restrictions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n DevSecOps will continue to become a\nmore common approach for managing applications, no longer the practice of just\nthe technology elite<\/strong>. Companies\nborn in the cloud and\/or have the majority of their revenue coming from\nInternet-based consumption have been implementing security automation within\ntheir DevOps practices. However, even the non \u201ctech elite\u201d are starting to\nembrace security automation like never before. Some of it is driven by gains in\ncost and efficiency. Other factors are due to the increase in Cloud adoption\nwhere security automation is the de facto practice, not the exception. COVID-19\nrestrictions also make it significantly more challenging to bring consultants\nand auditors onsite to perform penetration testing and review compliance\nresults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Privacy lawsuits will slowly change\nbehaviors but not all business models will survive<\/strong>. In Nov 2020, California voters passed Proposition 24 which\ndoubled down on California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Within days of the\npassing of Prop 24, Apple announced they would require all application\npublishers to fill out a Privacy Disclosure. The privacy disclose includes all\ndata collection, user tracking, and data sharing including sharing with\nthird-party partners. The result will be new privacy \u201cnutrition labels\u201d on all\napplications listed in the Apple App Store and Mac Store. Some companies whose\nentire business model is to give away free services in order to harvest their\nusers\u2019 behaviors in order to sell that personal data will be called into\nquestion if they fail to disclose it. Further, with new laws like CCPA, many\ncompanies will have to adjust their approach to harvesting personal data and\nsome smaller apps may not survive in their current state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Personal data ownership rights will\nstart to push back against end user legal agreements that no one reads<\/strong>. It has been a norm in the tech industry to require users\nof software to accept and agree to lengthy multi-page end user license\nagreements which often releases a person from privacy rights of their own data.\nThe truth is that end user license agreements structured by corporate legal\nteams may have terms and language that would not be upheld in the upcoming\nlandscape of data privacy laws. We will see increased challenges to these data\nrights starting in 2021 and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Personalized news apps will deepen political polarization within the U.S<\/strong>. The November 2020 U.S. presidential election cycle broke all-time records in voter turnout. Media outlets experienced higher than normal viewership. Yet, the lack of trust in media outlets continue to come into question. Fact checking on fake news takes up as much time as the news itself. Data, particularly from trusted sources, used to be a place for rational alignment but even facts are put into question in these times. Frustrations expressed by US voters are often triggered by the blurring lines of data-driven and fact-based reporting, editorialized commentary, and opinions shared via social media. A viral social media post with no facts nor data will often be promoted by news outlets especially when it is popular amongst their viewers. The growing number of alternative news outlets and social media apps appears to be deepening our divisions and increasing distrust for those who have differing political views. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rich Tehrani is CEO of RT Advisors<\/a> and a Registered Representative with and offering securities through Four Points Capital Partners LLC <\/a>(Four Points) (Member FINRA\/SIPC). RT Advisors is not owned by Four Points.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The above information was strictly a technical\/business news article\/review regarding the company(ies) mentioned. The information contained should not be considered and is not a recommendation to invest in or sell short the securities of the underlying company(ies).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We wanted to share these great tech predictions – as a guest post from the COO of Data Theorem, Doug Dooley. We hope you find them useful. 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