Monthly Archives: December 2011

Privacy… and the Phantom Tollbooth!

Last night I was reading my daughter’s bedtime story from that classic of American children’s literature, The Phantom Tollbooth, when I came across a passage that set out brilliantly the problems that can arise as a result of the gathering … Continue reading

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12 wishes for online privacy….

It’s that time of year for lists, predictions and so forth. I don’t want to make predictions myself – I know all too well how hard it is to predict anything in this world, and even more so in the … Continue reading

Posted in Digital Economy Act, ICO, Privacy | 8 Comments

Privacy is not the enemy…

I attended the Oxford Institute event ‘Anonymity, Privacy and Open Data’ yesterday, notable amongst other things for Professor Ross Anderson’s systematic and incredibly powerful destruction of the argument in favour of ‘anonymisation’ as a protection for privacy. It was a … Continue reading

Posted in consent, Open Data, Privacy | 6 Comments