Archives for July 2011

Which current UK government initiatives would be affected by services such as Mydex?

Which current UK Coalition government initiatives would be fundamentally affected by a new, different and better personal data ecosystem such as Mydex and others are trying to bring about? See some thoughts below (crossposted from idealgovernment.com, …

Social Networks or Data Repositories?

Last.FM, Flickr and Delicious. Three of my favourite sites that I use weekly if not daily. Use being an interesting word. I have scrobbled over 17,000 tracks into Last.FM, I have bookmarked over 5,000 URLs in Delicious and I have uploaded around 8,500 …

Value Network Mapping Begins

Last week Kaliya and Verna Alee traveled to the Cloud Identity Summit to get the Phase 1 of our first Industry Collaborative project started. We are working on developing Value Network Maps of how value flows between different roles in the personal data ecosystem. We are starting with a map of how things work today […]

Commissioner Cavoukian’s letter to the New York Times entitled “Keeping Privacy Alive”

Applause, applause! Finally, an article on privacy not being dead! As the information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, I have seen an endless stream of seemingly automated articles announcing the death of privacy, in one form or another.