Shareprices defy online advertising cancellations
The Google share price took a brief hit after the stories of systemic distortion with regard to on-line advertising metrics,
Stop the bleeding – a Budget for IT-enabled recovery: Part 1
News of the World down. Who is next?
The News of the World employed only 19 of the 305 journalists identified by the Information Commissioners Office (see page 9 of "What Price Privacy Now?") as using the...
The age of internet innocence is dead: the slaughter of the twitterati
What is the difference between South Tyneside Council and the Iranian Secret Police? South Tyneside uses californian lawyers instead of deep packet...
Do information and identity regulators do more harm than good?
If recently attended a meeting of senior bankers at which the thesis was advanced that the recent banking crisis was primarily a failure of information governance: with major players no longer understanding how supposedly diversified risks were correlated....
(Ex)terminated by (un)ethical review – or Death by Data Protection revisited
I recently relayed some of the discussions at the ETICA conference (to which I referred to in my recent blog ) to a senior medical consultant. At the...
What identities do you trust in the on-line world – and why?
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Rationalising the slew of semi-incompatible Information and Identity Governance proposals
Tomorrow I am due to help open the first discussion at the ETICA conference in Brussels on bringing together Ethics, Innovation and Politics. I have been piggy-in-the-middle...
Cybersecurity in Cloud Cuckoo Land
I spent the week-end reviewing forward political agendas, including for information and identity governance. I skipped the No2ID celebrations over the end of ID cards. That was partly because I believe in the value of locally issued residents' cards, linked to properly validated electoral...
The Semantic Web – Is It Worth It? (A guest blog)
I have watched attempts to produce automated means of tracking and tracing the provenance of on-line data for well over a decade - as a succession of snake-oil salesmen have tried to persuade naive users...