Archive for the ‘privacy’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]