When IT Meets Politics
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What is the difference between John Wicks (expenses database) and Edward Snowden?
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Mar 2014 -
The social contract behind internet is broken and there is a conspiracy of silence
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Mar 2014 -
Is the great broadband logjam about to break? If so, who will be swept away?
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Mar 2014
we need to take a cool look at the developing roles of BDUK and Ofcom and their crablike progress towards the creation of a Fabian (alias Orwellian) world of "co-ordination", planning and ...
The way in which the Internet operates is based on an implied social contract between 1,400 engineers and 2 billion users. That "contract" has not been updated in over a decade. It is now broken. ...
In US local government politics it is common for candidates to use their broadband plans for the community to win the support of those concerned about local jobs and property values. We may be ...
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How rural is Shoreditch, our supposed technopolis?
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Mar 2014 -
How relevant and practical are awareness programmes designed for a PC world to the mobile world?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Feb 2014 -
What price net neutrality in a non-competitive broadband market
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Feb 2014 -
Entire NHS Hospital Episodes database already sold to insurance company
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Feb 2014 -
How do we ensure that public online services are fit for a democratic society?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2014 -
The fight against Surveillance Society claims its first victory - against NHS not NSA
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Feb 2014 -
The thefts from Tesco customers help illustrate the uselessness of Data Breach Notification
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2014
I suspect we are about to see current broadband roll-out plans overtaken by a perfect storm, as market forces compensate for regulatory failure in the wake of an economic crisis triggered by events ...
Where does John's advice to his friend appear on any of the mainstream "security awareness programmes"? Who do you trust to give similar advice to your local silver surfers club and, more ...
The time has come for thorough review of the role of Ofcom as a competition regulator if we really do want open, competitive access to the on-line world and of the role of BDUK if we want that ...
At this point I should, however, add that I personally would have much more faith in the security of an exercise done by a phamarceutical or insurance company in co-operation with Experian than one ...
I wondered how many "Digital Leaders" would agree with all of the above principles and recommendations but put them into practice, partiucarly with to regard to ensuring that their data is not ...
Perhaps our most valuable ally is, however, market forces. The "pay-per-click" advertising bubble looks set to burst under the weight of fraud and we know that consumers who actively exercise ...
The EU is pressing ahead with a new Data Protection Directive and "Regulation", both fine-tuning approaches designed for the age of mainframes - as relevant to the privacy of the users of today as ...
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How do we make the Internet a Safer Place?
- Winsafe Ltd 12 Feb 2014 -
The irony of exposing state surveillance between 70th birthday of Colossus and Safer Internet Day
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Feb 2014 -
Ed Milliband adopts the first plank of my NRDP Manifesto
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Feb 2014 -
Is "know your customer" the on-line fraudsters' greatest ally?
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Feb 2014 -
Men fight over Bletchley Park: where women won the war.
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Feb 2014
I should add that I did some checking after the event and discovered that those who claim that age verification is too expensive and complex for widespread use are usually unaware of how cheap and ...
I suspect that, were a survey to be done, more of the population (not just parents and grandparents) would say that the security services were not doing enough surveillance and spending too much ...
"That we each own our personal information (from DNS and Biometrics to transaction profiles) and all who presume to collect, copy, collate or use that information owe us a duty of care."I look ...
Regulation should focus less on what is stored, (given the many requirements of consumer protection regulators and others to retain that which is not required for business purposes) and more on who ...
I hope their various accounts have been taped so that, when they are no longer available, more professional guides can give future generations a similar experience. I very much hope that Bletchley ...