I was having a thought-provoking chat with a friend the other day. As happens these days, the chat was over Facebook Messenger, not face to face. We were discussing things like the PageUp security breach, and I mentioned that one of the companies who had been involved in the security and data compromise, had sent […]
This is a good, and extensive, and well worth, summary of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In short, it’s clear that the company Cambridge Analytica was able to use Facebook’s architecture and algorithms to make a mockery of Facebook’s claims of user privacy – accessing, mining, analysing and influencing users in ways not thought possible or […]
So soon after I wrote this, 2018 is already off to a bit of a nutter start. Cryptocurrency craziness The cryptocurrency market is already coming to a head. We have known that the lack of regulation would come to a head, and soon. It’s heating up quickly, as the last days of 2017 and first […]
You know, it’s been a while since I last posted. And it’s been hard to get this moving again. Partly as I’ve been busy, but also that there’s a lot going on – but none of it particularly inspiring me to write. Harvey Weinstein, Uber leading the headlines for sexual assault. Gender politics, citizenship politics […]
I am not sure whether there’s anything more that can be added to the Uber discussion. So I’m not going to. The conversation has already shifted away from trashy executive behaviour and individual maturity into a bigger, much more interesting space. This leads out of the antitrust ruling against Google to the tune of €2.4 […]
This is about to be the most overused meme on the Interweb After a big ole investigation, in which the European Union threatened to claim back from Apple their ‘owed’ taxes to the tune of billions, they went ahead and did it. Well, technically Ireland has been charged with recovering the bill as they allowed Apple the […]
The Apple bigwigs have been on a bit of an interview tear in the past week, building up the hype in the lead up to the iPhone launch on September 7. The interviews (Tim Cook with the Washington Post, and Eddy Cue/Craig Federighi with Fast Company) have taken an interesting approach, pushing the humanity of their leaders […]
There’s a lot being made out of Apple’s decision to use differential privacy in iOS10. WIRED as usual have a solid write up. In Craig Federighi‘s part of the WWDC Keynote address, he mentioned that Apple was shifting to use differential privacy as a means to collect even more data but protect user privacy at the […]
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