So Mozy Expire My Account AND Debit My Bank
Day 2 with no backups and oh dear. Today strangely as I expected Mozy confirmed that something is very wrong with the change over to the new billing by still hitting me up for my unlimited...
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What Will Happen to East Kent?
Two days ago Pfizer announced the closure of their enormous R&D plant in Sandwich, Kent. Some 2,400 people will lose their jobs and despite plans being discussed for area rejuvenation by the UK...
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Are NDAs a sign of trust or mistrust? My thoughts.
Over at 100Open there is an interesting post on the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and whether they are a tool of trust or mistrust. I won't regurgitate the post here but essentially it is...
View Article"To maintain confidence, to maintain trust we need to secure independence by...
via youtube.comAnother Lessig masterpiece this time succinctly explaining how independence is really not free reign but a proper dependence and that trust is a function of that independence.
View ArticlePersonal Revelations at the Future of Consumer Protection
Over the last few days I have been priviliged to attend and participate (even moderate) in a series of discussions on potential future directions for Consumer Protection. Hosted jointly by the Reseach...
View ArticleUser Control May Not Be THE Answer to Privacy Concerns
It's been an interesting week in global outlooks on privacy with two widely discussed stories doing the rounds (amongst a whole heap of other less publicised stuff). We have had Facebook once again...
View ArticleResearch CMD » Blog Archive » Privacy Part 1: The Stop and Go of DataFlow
“IT’S PERSONAL, BUT I’LL SHARE…MAYBE.” IT DEPENDS.A superb piece of data visualisation over at at Ball State University's Center for Media Design looking at the rather curious privacy decisions made by...
View ArticlePersonal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class
I haven't had time to read the whole thing yet but the World Economic Forum can be found over here.Personal data is becoming a new economic “asset class”, a valuable resource for the 21st century that...
View ArticleCCTV Snoop Internet Eyes loses high profile customer
Way back in late 2009 a number of people in the security, privacy and identity spaces picked up on a rather disturbing business proposition from startup Internet Eyes. In essence they provide a kind...
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Jumping the EU Ship for Cookies, Really?
Cookie CuttersI consciously decided to not post on last weeks "suprise news" that after several years of consultatation the EU has gone ahead and published it's directive on browser cookies.Firstly...
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Your data, your rights: Safeguarding your privacy in a connected world
In a most timely release Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission & EU Justice Commissioner has posted her speech from today's "The Review of the EU Data Protection Framework."In...
View ArticleI Exercised My "Right to Opt Out"
After two months of waiting today I finally had the opportunity to sit down with an orthopaedic consultant and discuss the state of my injured knee.I thought it worthwhile commenting on the Darent...
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Carphone Warehouse You Have a Duty of Care With Customer's Privacy!
Filling time whilst in a shopping centre with one's family is a well learnt male skill. For those with more middle of the road interests it's off to WH Smith's for a browse of the car magazines, for...
View ArticleIs Fungibility a Requirement of Currency?
I'm no expert when it comes to money but an article shared by the inimitable Tony Fish earlier today piqued my interest. In the article by Ross Dawson he discusses"Why reputation, influence, and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Carphone Warehouse Caught Not Wiping Personal Data AGAIN?
Hey allYesterday we popped back into the behemoth mall that is Bluewater and as a follow up to my post about Carphone Warehouse thought I might just have another quick look see. Sure enough there on...
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TheTrainLine.com & CashGenie Up to No Good With Privacy
Last Friday (24th Feb) I received an SMS from TheTrainLine.com suggesting I might like to download their own app for my phone. I've been a customer of theirs in the past but stopped once it was...
View ArticleOopsy - I Seem to Have Hosed Images
In the process of migrating from wordpress I appear to have i) forgotten to migrate those few images I had in wordpress and ii) not yet managed to map the comments in Disqus from old to new.Bare with...
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What's in a Name, Starbucks?
The lastest "innovation" from the Starbucks loyalty team is that their in-store staff are getting new name badges (can I get a woop?) and that when you use your Starbuck's Card (a stored-value / prepay...
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Blogging requires passion and authority. Which has left me out.
After nearly a year of not blogging I'm back. No excuses, I've just not bothered posting stuff. I have a couple of dozen drafts but no real material. Until now.As part of the HighWire MRes/PhD...
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Anthimeria vs IPR
A few weeks back the Highwire ’12 cohort were treated to a brief look at the world of intellectual property rights (IPR) by Professor Chris May who elucidated the main types of IPR and how in his...
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A Modernist Rationale for Big Data in Business?
Big Data is everywhere.Science produces truly vast quanities of data annually. The Large Hadron Collider alone achieves something in the order of 600 million particle collisions per second when in...
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It's Time to Separate the Personal from Big Data
Change to business practice away from the voracious acquisition of Big Data has been advocated for a number of years now, a move towards a more appropriate, scalable and usable look at data.Whilst Big...
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Twenty Years of Mobile or "Even the Fart App is Meaningful"
I’ve been knocking around on the fringes of the mobile industry for many years now and have a great many good friends deeply embedded in mobile network operators (MNOs), handset manufacturers,...
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Funding Tales - The Missing Link of High404 (Part 1)
As part of the HighWire MRes/PhD programme we take a module (High404) dedicated to introducing digital innovation to the cohort. This may seem a little odd, you’d kind of expect every one taking such...
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Disruption & Funding Innovation - The MIssing Link of High404 (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog post I looked at my own personal tale of funding technology innovation from the dot-com bubble back in the late nineties.Investment for tech had appeared to follow...
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