You should own your own data
In virtually every country there is a debate around privacy, driven most recently by the rise of Big Data, social networks and technology more generally. Without doubt, the major technology companies...
View ArticleLiving as far from 1984 as Orwell
Over the last month I’ve been talking a lot about personally controlled records and the ownership of your own information. For more background, see last month’s post and a discussion I took part in on...
View ArticleThrough a PRISM, Darkly
By now, most people have heard about the NSA surveillance program known as PRISM that, according to a recent AP story, is about even bigger data seizure. Without question, big data has both positive...
View ArticleChallenging times for the ICT industry
Last month I wrote about the collection of personal information by business and government and compared the loss of privacy to George Orwell’s predictions for 1984 (see “Living as far from 1984 as...
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Evernote’s Three Laws of Data Protection
“It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.” –Michael Douglass as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987) Sporting more than 60 million users, Evernote is one of the most popular productivity apps...
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Our Privacy is Currency — and We are Giving It Away
In my post from this past summer Through a PRISM, Darkly, I blogged about how ours is a world still struggling to come to terms with having more aspects of our everyday lives, both personal and...
View ArticleLiving without a trace of Big Data
I’ve watched over a number of months as major digital providers across handsets, telecommunications, internet services and virtually every other integrated offering have one by one described how they...
View ArticleThe Data of Damocles
While the era of Big Data invokes concerns about privacy and surveillance, we still tender our privacy as currency for Internet/mobile-based services as the geo-location tags, date-time stamps, and...
View ArticleIs Informed Consent outdated in the Information Age?
A Facebook experiment from late 2012 made news earlier this year and raised the ethical question of whether, by using free services provided via the Internet and mobile apps, we have granted informed...
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