Big companies will go to great lengths to enhance their reputation in the debate over privacy and personal data.
Facebook and Google – two massive organisations who have been involved in controversy over data collection and privacy in recent month…
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The battle for personal data
16 May 2011 by
McKinsey's Research Arm Claims Big Data Mining Will Save Us All
13 May 2011 by
Steve Lohr has a write up in today’s NYTimes: Mining of Raw Data May Bring a Surge of Innovation about McKinsey & Company's report on Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity.
I think we need to challenge ass…
A Federated Social Web for Peace
12 May 2011 by
My contribution to the Federated Social Web Summit in Berlin:
Abstract:
Having always been closely linked to the ideal of peace, the concept of civil society has a long history as a third actor besides the state and the economy. It is a nonviolent “…
PDEC at IIW: An NSTIC Project Risk Analysis
12 May 2011 by
At last week’s Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California, I led a brainstorming session to identify risks to the success of the new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC, pronounced “EN-stick”). The strategy is to encourage many non-government organizations to provide digital identity and personal data services in a way that meets […]