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, 
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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...
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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...
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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....
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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