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Not quite public
That old question came up recently: What really good online service experiences has government ever given us? As usual, the first (and, sadly, often the last) answer: the online tax disc service....
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De devil tail
I saw a statistical tweet this morning: the sort that makes me pause and think. What is it really saying, and what is the story that could be told? The average local government public sector pension...
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On the shifting of control of personal data
If you’ve been locked in a cupboard for the last five (or more) years, you’re excused from observing this thematic shift: In the longer term, data about people is more likely to be owned and...
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Inconvenience
I’ve written before about something that would really set a rocket under the opening up of data: the vigorous pursuit of the useful stuff. When we’ve been given access to transport data, wonderful...
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Getting personal
For a long time, I’ve shied away from writing here about personal data. Or even thinking that deeply about it. The nature of identity, yes. The usefulnesss of data, yes. Personal data, no. Why? Not...
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About that Data Protection myth
If you follow me on Twitter you might have spotted a recent exchange of views over the last few days with Vodafone. They do a fair job, it has to be said, of engaging in that channel. I’m not sure how...
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The Accidental Data Controller
It happened a few months back. Facebook (that hideous, grunt-cheering, dumb-arse cesspit of a privacy clusterfuck–but let me try and remain objective) started to put some rather strange suggestions...
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Just because you can…
An interesting piece appeared on the Guardian data blog on Friday. It describes a wealth of new data being released relating to court and conviction information. The database shows sentencing in 322...
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Digital by default
As I write this, I’m sitting on a stationary train. In a station. The rail app on my phone tells me it’s the train I want. But the signs on the platform are totally blank. And the guy in uniform on...
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About me, but not of me?
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. Bear with me here. Lots of agitation at the moment about the prospect of our health records being flogged...
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Not quite public
That old question came up recently: What really good online service experiences has government ever given us? As usual, the first (and, sadly, often the last) answer: the online tax disc service....
View ArticleClik here to view.
De devil tail
I saw a statistical tweet this morning: the sort that makes me pause and think. What is it really saying, and what is the story that could be told? The average local government public sector pension...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the shifting of control of personal data
If you’ve been locked in a cupboard for the last five (or more) years, you’re excused from observing this thematic shift: In the longer term, data about people is more likely to be owned and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inconvenience
I’ve written before about something that would really set a rocket under the opening up of data: the vigorous pursuit of the useful stuff. When we’ve been given access to transport data, wonderful...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Getting personal
For a long time, I’ve shied away from writing here about personal data. Or even thinking that deeply about it. The nature of identity, yes. The usefulnesss of data, yes. Personal data, no. Why? Not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
About that Data Protection myth
If you follow me on Twitter you might have spotted a recent exchange of views over the last few days with Vodafone. They do a fair job, it has to be said, of engaging in that channel. I’m not sure how...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Accidental Data Controller
It happened a few months back. Facebook (that hideous, grunt-cheering, dumb-arse cesspit of a privacy clusterfuck–but let me try and remain objective) started to put some rather strange suggestions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Just because you can…
An interesting piece appeared on the Guardian data blog on Friday. It describes a wealth of new data being released relating to court and conviction information. The database shows sentencing in 322...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Digital by default
As I write this, I’m sitting on a stationary train. In a station. The rail app on my phone tells me it’s the train I want. But the signs on the platform are totally blank. And the guy in uniform on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
About me, but not of me?
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. Bear with me here. Lots of agitation at the moment about the prospect of our health records being flogged...
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