Has ISOC sold .Org for 30 pieces of silver? – Update 15th November
Since I posted this there have been many entries on an impassioned ISOC discussion thread. So far I draw three main conclusions:
- Democratic accountability is alien to ISOC. It has long been structured as a top down organisation, living off the revenues from .org, , with multiple groups...
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Is the Facebook furore another piece of Fake News
The story of how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data collected by an Academic intermediary to supposedly help Remain "steal" the UK referendum campaign and Trump "steal" the US...
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Fake News – The Movie
A video of yesterdays ISOC England round table on Fake News is now available on-line. It is unedited and therefore begins, as do most webcast events, with some embarrassing technical problems but stay with it. It was a good disucssion, ably stirred by 0 Comments
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Is on-line advertising about to implode?
Yesterday I mentioned that many on-line advertising campaigns generate less revenue (let alone profit) than they cost. Today the Drum carries an article on 0 Comments
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“On-line Age Checking – the time has come”: why it matters to YOUR business
When the Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated his pre-election pledge to "curb access to pornographic web sites by under 18s" there was a widespread assumption that this only mattered to those...
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Responding to the revolt of target audiences against on-line advertising linked to data mining
Recent surveys indicate that the "Millennial" generation is losing faith in the security of on-line players in the face of the growing flood of data breach stories. Those who stick their heads in the cloud of collective wisdom lack...
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When politics meets IT: the gulf between the people and the techies
The technical press and industry lobbyists appear to be living on a different planet to most voters when it comes to assessing what the election will mean for on-line...
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Delivering the digital infrastructure for Dot Everyone – The F Plan
I was not able to watch this year's Dimbleby Lecture when it happened but over the Easter week-end I made time to watch the challenge that Martha Lane-Fox made to the Dimbleby's (and the other media...
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Who do you trust less with your digital footprint – Your ISP or Your State Security Service?
On the eve of the meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force last March, the Conservative Techology Forum held a 0 Comments
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Everyone is recording what we do over the Internet: why should the NSA and GCHQ be different?
On February 18th I am due to propose the motion "Nobody is telling the truth about cyber security - not even when they think they know what the truth is" at a Real Time Club dinner debate.
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