5G: technology enabler, or cancerous security risk?

Tom Allen
clock • 7 min read

With the potential to impact peoples' security, privacy and health it is important to ensure 5G's safety before its rollout, say stakeholders

The principle of 5G networking is to provide more than voice, data and messaging: it's about becoming an enabling infrastructure for many other services, from phones to driverless cars. These devic...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
NHS England reinstates open source Github page used to maintain central database of GP data

Health

GP Connect page taken down, then reinstated, over 'inaccurate' patient record database claim

clock 19 March 2024 • 3 min read
NHS England challenged over redacted Palantir contract

Privacy

NHS must respond this month

clock 20 February 2024 • 3 min read
Haier threatens legal action over open source appliance control plugin

Internet of Things

Haier claims the plugin is causing ‘significant economic harm’

clock 23 January 2024 • 2 min read

Sign up to our newsletter

The best news, stories, features and photos from the day in one perfectly formed email.

More on Networks

Cisco unveils unified networking platform

Cisco unveils unified networking platform

Aims to ease administration by converging disparate offerings onto a unified network management platform

Gina Narcisi
clock 07 June 2023 • 2 min read
Peter Cochrane: Optimising to extinction

Peter Cochrane: Optimising to extinction

Economic incentives create dangerous levels of brittleness and a lack of adaptability in the face of rapid technological and market change

Professor Peter Cochrane
clock 22 March 2023 • 3 min read
Industry Voice: Solving Network Challenges with VMware SD-WAN

Industry Voice: Solving Network Challenges with VMware SD-WAN

VMware
clock 18 March 2022 • 2 min read