When IT Meets Politics

February 2010

• Envisioning the future versus Digital Myopia

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 25 Feb 2010

Most of the current generation of UK regulators ... think they are leading the world. And in a sense they are. For nearly a decade the rest of the world has indeed seen the UK as a case study to ...

• More bottlenecks than a brewery: the UK Broadband Network

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2010

The business case for further infrastructure investment, even before business rates, is therefore suspect - except for those who make their money from Internet Advertising. Hence Google's plan in ...

• The Fog over Grimpen Mire: Cloud Computing revisited

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 19 Feb 2010

I will not comment on the legal Grimpen Mire described by Miranda. Follow the link above to her paper and consider the issues that need to be addressed for the Cloud suppliers and their customers ...

• Drowning in Data Leaks v. Death by Data Protection

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 16 Feb 2010

The intention is send links to the winning entry to all candidates after an awards ceremony in Parliament on 22nd March and to make all entries available to the newly elected MPs after the general ...

• Does Cloud Computing need Superfast Broadband?

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2010

nterestingly even London does not make the OECD top 20 Cities for either download or upload speeds: unlike its competitors like Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Hamburg, Lyon, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, ...

• Industry calls for user choice over pay per click advertising

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 09 Feb 2010

The suggestion that industry should take a lead before regulation is forced on them is eminently sensible. Especially since regulators rarely allow consumers a choice. They prefer to take it for ...

• Yes to the cut-price passport - alias young persons ID card

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 08 Feb 2010

A light has switched on in the Home Office. The IPS press release for the availablity of the Young Persons ID Card in London points out that it can be used as a passport across Europe. At £30 ...

• Information Security Breaches Survey - who tells the truth?

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 05 Feb 2010

The most impressive security "policy" that I have came across was printed on one side of a postcard - which all staff (and contractors) had to read and sign before they got their password.

• Cloud computing is a nebulous concept

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 04 Feb 2010

What is clear is that if customers have to do this themselves, it can wipe out the benefits on offer. There is a need for credible, shared, evalutions services. More-over these will need to cross ...

• Is poor service forcing consumers off-line?

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 02 Feb 2010

Unless and until they do, we will continue to see a situation where high-value customers browse on-line but buy off-line and the corner shop will inherit the cash handling business that used to be ...

• Miss Marple monitoring the St Mary Mead CCTV

  Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2010

I suspect the time has come to stop worrying about 1984 and BIg Brother and start worrying about the voyeur next door. Or should that mean looking forward to a new on-line "community spirit".