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Speaking of Speaking.. the Personal Data Ecosystem Emerges

The last two weeks I’ve been speaking a lot. Why?

On 1/28/11 I was at She’s Geeky SF leading a session with Kaliya Hamlin, Executive Director of Personal Data Ecosystem, where about 50 women came to talk about what this emerging organization and spac…

Privacy pendulum swings

If you haven’t been following the “right to be forgotten” topic, this article in The Atlantic is a fairly good primer – and it has a few quotes from Marty Abrams as a bonus. I’m with Marty on this – I don’t think that the right to be forg…

The Personal Data Locker Vision Video

Aside from people in the audiences for my keynote speeches, only 250 people have seen this video. I am making it public in hopes that people will find it, learn from it, and join me in making the vision a reality. The first reaction to this video is th…

“Data Incoming!” Event-Based Systems and Self-Determination

A while ago, Steve was helpfully giving me information related to my driving from the passenger seat. I jokingly told him it would be helpful to me if he’d tag his utterances so I’d know what they were. So he started prepending “data incoming!” to the…