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 [...]
Google claims not paying UK tax helps fundamental human rights
The Personal Cloud Network joining Personal Data Stores
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 [...]
Know thyself – The Economist
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 [...]
Death, taxes and childbirth
“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 [...]
Social Prophecy
We have long been concerned about the issues of privacy and confidentiality on the web as a skim through my old blogs will attest. At that time neither individuals, businesses nor government recognised this as an issue – indeed, individuals were pouring out detailed personal information to anyone who asked, companies were collecting, harvesting and [...]
Health, Wealth & Happiness
Good day at the Business Cloud Summit 2010 yesterday participating on the panel analysing the rights and wrongs of the NHS IT strategy and potential of Cloud Computing given current economic conditions. Barry Evans, John Cruickshank, Graham Sadd and Gary Flood provide 'A Cloudy Health Check' As 'Business' is in the title I was not surprised [...]
Violent Agreement Breaks Out at IoS Forum
Serge Ravet, CEO of EIfEL, prefaced the Eifel Learning Forum with the inaugural Internet of Subjects Forum to an international audience in London yesterday. The plenary presentations were made by Sampo Kellomaki, Chief Architect at Symlabs, Graham Sadd, Founder & CEO of PAOGA (read interview) and Paul Trevithick - Founder of Higgins Project and CEO of Azigo. Sampo, [...]
Erasing David
In case you missed broadcast on More4 then have a look at Toby Stevens of the Enterprise Privacy Group excellent blog post on this 'scary' documentary. As individuals we appear to be unaware of the implications of spraying our personal information around without any controls or benefits. The documentary showed the extreme example of Dave's attempt at complete anonymity [...]
It’s not YOUR relationship to manage
Good article in CRM magazine quoting Doc Searls and Iain Henderson promoting the benefits of 'user driven' VRM to the CRM community. PAOGA are moving up to TRM (Trusted Relationship Management) to extend the reach beyond the vendor/consumer to all relationships and to address the concerns of individuals about privacy as well as supplier concerns [...]
ICO gets more teeth.
Delighted that respect for an individuals' personal information is being taken increasingly seriously. See article in The Register. Let's hope that the ICO have the necessary resources to enforce it. Legal compliance and risk of serious financial penalties (£500,000) is a powerful driver to raise the issue of embracing TRM (Trusted Relationship Management) at board [...]
- PAOGA, IdAssurance and midata June 13, 2013
- Google claims not paying UK tax helps fundamental human rights February 19, 2013
- The Personal Cloud Network joining Personal Data Stores February 6, 2013
- Know thyself – The Economist January 2, 2013
- Master Chef November 29, 2012
- David and Google-iath July 30, 2009
- Market Research Conclusions September 29, 2009
- Health, Wealth and Happiness September 20, 2006
- VRM and Green Energy October 19, 2009
- London Times Obituary of the late Mr. Common Sense: January 26, 2009
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