Archives for June 2011

A Strong Statement of Intent from EU on Online Privacy

 
Here’s some powerful stuff from Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for online privacy.
It’s worth reading the whole speech, but here are some highlights:
– ‘Without privacy, consumers will not trust the online…

Avoid Unintended Consequences: Engage Privacy by Design

A presentation by Commissioner Cavoukian at Research in Motion on how privacy is a business issue as much as it is a compliance issue and how Privacy by Design allows organizations to gain a competitive advantage.

Are you in charge of what you buy, or is it vice versa?

That’s the question of the day, at least for me.
Toward being in charge of what you buy, we have Buyosphere, which is a VRM company. I know that, because Tara Hunt runs it and has been working from the start to imbue it with VRM ideals.
Toward what y…

Let’s all be spotted hawks

OwnerIQ sez,

This video explains what they mean.
Compare those people and the way they define themselves—as products (a BMW, an iPad)—to the way Walt Whitman defined himself, just before Industry won the Industrial Revolution:
I know I am solid …