privacy
Digital rights in a restrictive age
One of the difficulties of working in the internet industry is we sometimes feel like we’re fighting a losing battle against regulation. Despite the new horizons the digital age offers:
state databases of our information are growing, yet our access to public information is being eroded,
copyright is becoming more restrictive, making a criminal out of [...]
Data protection not worth the name
Wow, and while I’m on the subject too…
Did we really need any more convincing that a national ID database is a bad idea? Having worked in government and seen some of the extraordinary care some departments take over Data Protection, today’s breach is astonishing. I think this is the final straw that gets me signing [...]
ORG is two
A quick Happy Birthday to the Open Rights Group, whom I’m glad to be a supporter of. Put simply, without smart people like this fighting their/our corner, we’d be further down the path of privacy invasion, DRM, ill-informed media outbursts and excessive copyright.
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January bookmarks
Very busy recently: travel and long hours. Enjoying it. Some recent links of interest:
Secure passwords keep you safer (Wired) - less trivial than the title suggests. It’s inspired me to kickstart the depressingly large task of updating all mine.
So you want to be an Interaction Designer 2006? - Dan Saffer updates an important 2001 article.
Thinking [...]