Archive | Personal Information Management

RSS feed for this section

Google claims not paying UK tax helps fundamental human rights

Print Friendly

Fascinating response  from Eric and Sergei to the ‘Persecution of Google’  in a ‘leaked’ letter to EU privacy authorities. I repeat some interesting quotes from the letter: “If you think Google’s privacy policy has any bearing on privacy you’re barking up the wrong tree” “Google lives in the real world – not in the world of [...]

Share
Read full story Comments { 0 }

The Personal Cloud Network joining Personal Data Stores

Print Friendly

If there is anyone in business who still needs to be convinced that there is a significant shift in the control and management of Personal Information from insecure organisational data silos to Personal Data Stores managed and controlled by the individual then have a look at Respect Network and the fast growing community of companies [...]

Share
Read full story Comments { 0 }

Know thyself – The Economist

Print Friendly

Original article in The Economist which you can read here. One of the concerns that individuals and organisations raise is included in the article. There is a risk that if data lockers prove as useful as the start-ups claim, it could encourage bigger cloud-storage firms such as Google and Dropbox to barge in and grab [...]

Share
Read full story Comments are closed

Psst! Wanna buy a second hand digital copier?

Print Friendly

I have always known that ‘paper’ is an expensive and time consuming way of collecting, sharing, storing and retrieving information. I recall us all going out to buy document shredders to protect us from Ne’er do wells rooting through our dustbins (sorry – trash cans) to get hold of our personal information until weak or unprotected [...]

Share
Read full story Comments are closed

Data, data everywhere, but . . .

Print Friendly

The following is written by the CEO of Personal.com (as the American spelling will attest). It is the Foreword to an important White Paper Privacy by Design and the Emerging Personal Data Ecosystem  from Dr Ann Cavoukian, Information & Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada which I strongly recommend reading. Yes, Personal.com can be seen as a competitor [...]

Share
Read full story Comments are closed

Graham is Privacy by Design Ambassador

Print Friendly

I was honoured to be invited recently by Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D, Information & Privacy Commissioner – Ontario, Canada, to become an Ambassador for Privacy by Design following my post comparing her ’7 Principles’ with PAOGA’s application development.

Share
Read full story Comments are closed

Simon Davies – The Privacy Surgeon

Print Friendly

Over the next few days the Privacy Surgeon will poll many of the world’s leading privacy specialists, policy-makers, media professionals and legal experts to identify the ten key issues that are most likely to dominate the privacy landscape over the coming year. This will by the first of an annual poll conducted every summer by [...]

Share
Read full story Comments are closed

Death, taxes and childbirth

Print Friendly

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.” Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind, 1936 Having recently lost my father bought into sharp focus the inconvenience of the attending bureaucracy required and reconfirmed our passion to address the unnecessary time, costs and inconvenience of the current paper-based process for [...]

Share
Read full story Comments are closed

Anti Social Networks – their time has come.

Print Friendly

Now, don’t misunderstand me – I am not advocating Antisocial Networks. I have nothing against Social Networks used sensibly for sharing stuff BUT, like everyone else, I also have private and personal stuff, important to me, that I want to share quickly and conveniently with specific people and organisations. Similarly, as a business, I want [...]

Share
Read full story Comments { 0 }

Conference Season – Autumn 2011

Print Friendly

It started for me with a fascinating lunch hosted by the Information Technologists’ Company on HQS Wellington. As always, an impressive keynote speaker in Professor Richard Susskind OBE but you’ll have to ask David Blunkett about his concerns regarding Home Office confidentiality –I thought you were supposed to kiss a lot of frogs, not let [...]

Share
Read full story Comments { 0 }