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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
July 2011
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But some of the other allegations of misconduct do need investigation
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Jul 2011 -
I gave 8/10 to PASC Report. Part of my reasoning has already been confirmed
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Jul 2011 -
The PASC report goes to the heart of why the rip-off image has come about
- Winsafe Ltd 27 Jul 2011
Lest my earlier posting today be misinterpreted I should add that my concern was that the allegations of a cartel distracted not just from important material but from the need to investigate some ...
I strongly agree that any attempt to find evidence of a Cartel would be a waste of public money and a diversion from the need to address the other problems identified in the report.
If government wants more open competition it has to slash the cost of bidding at all levels, not just for SMEs. The Information Society Alliance EURIM addressed this in its evidence to the ...
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Government and IT: A recipe for rip-offs. Stand by for a kicking
- Winsafe Ltd 27 Jul 2011 -
England can beat India: but it requires turning ducks waddling in economic recovery into swans
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Jul 2011 -
Teaching Ducks to Fly - A constructive role for BDUK
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Jul 2011 -
Will Ofcom and the European Commission make the BDUK Framework a Dead Duck
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Jul 2011 -
Lessons from Hackgate: 3) Listen to your Mother
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Jul 2011 -
Lessons from Hackgate: 2) Data leaks via people not technology
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Jul 2011 -
Lessons from Hackgate: 1) delete all e-mails no longer required
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Jul 2011
The report of the Public Administration Select Committee is due to be released at midnight. It is difficult for many of those who work in IT to comprehend just how unpopular their industry is with ...
Without such a change we can expect a round of (b) duck hunting while MPs (including those representing constituencies in Oxfordshire, Cheshire, Surrey and Sussex) are in their constituencies over ...
Meanwhile the UK faces a massive challenge to rebuild its utility infrastructures (including communications) so that they are fit for the challenges of the future. There is more than enough work ...
The Big Information Society is not a collection of cottage enterprises but a re-creation of the way our ancestors created world-class utility infrastructures (from canals to railways as well as ...
The Detective department of the Metropolitan Police was founded in 1842. The News of the World was launched in 1843. In 1847 the Metropolitan Police dismissed 238 officers for disciplinary ...
Much of the debate on the Regulation of Investigatory Powers, Data Retention, ID cards, Medical Records et al centres on who could/should be trusted to authorise access to what. Those with little ...
The unravelling phonehacking sage may prove to be an even better stimulus to basic "good practice" in information security and data protection than the lost HMRC discs. I am not sure that e-mails ...
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The death throes of the Steam Age Nation State
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Jul 2011 -
What is Identity? Why HMRC and DWP cannot agree
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Jul 2011 -
What is the difference between phone hacking and behavioural advertising
- Winsafe Ltd 12 Jul 2011 -
You read it here first
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Jul 2011 -
From phone hacking to spearphishing: we need to tackle the present not the past
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Jul 2011
Back in 1968 when the Russians marched into Prague the employees of the state computer industry were among their prime targets for "protective custody". The experts of today are in "similar demand" ...
And as for all that guff about our willingness to give out personal data over social networking sites - how much of is really "us" and how much is different personas for different groups of ...
Now look at those blogs, search engines and websites which make serious money - and how they attract readers - and thus advertisers!Who do you trust most, or perhaps it should be least, to look ...
The message is that this blog, the comments on it and those I place elsewhere to reinforce someo of the messages, attract an "interesting" audience.
And those journalists who would never dream of employing a private investigators, if only because they have no budget, may well be able to find all they need by using publicly available search ...