The Apple Card has intrigued me since being announced in March 2019. The power of iPhone. In a credit card. as the site says. Partnered with Mastercard and Goldman Sachs. And out now for early users, apparently. There’s been some good thought about how disruptive it will be to the payments system, taking on the […]
The EU hit Google with a US$5bn fine for antitrust, and anticompetitive activity in forcing/incentivising phone manufacturers to install Android, and stick to Chrome rather than offering an alternative. While Google has of course started the usual appeal against this decision, the real question is how much this actually means. Sure, US$5bn is a lotta […]
I wanted to challenge my kids to think different in storytelling and problem solving, so introduced them to Role Playing Games (RPGs). For those unfamiliar with RPGs, you choose a character and play through a guided adventure as that character, fighting, finding treasure and generally reacting to the story told by your guide. With me […]
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 […]
This is the second part to my look into the maturing innovation technology industry. Part 1 here, in which I freaked out about Uber, and the general lack of maturity in innovation leadership. In the time between that first post a few weeks ago and now, of course Uber has been through more. Driverless car crashed in […]
What has Wikileaks done now? Yesterday (7 March, 2017), Wikileaks released an absolute treasure trove of CIA secret misdeeds, misinformation, technical knowhow, surveillance capability and much more juicy stuff. I’m not going to go into the politics, rights/wrongs or even whether it’s real or not (independent experts are leaning to ‘yes’). There are many others […]
The Uber circus has been in full swing lately. The resignation of a high level executive due to lack of disclosure around sexual harrassment, the disturbing picture of an embedded harrassment culture there, to the quite powerful lawsuit that Google’s Waymo is swinging against Uber, to the video of their CEO Travis Kalanick acting like […]
It hasn’t been a good election for Facebook. Some months ago they faced accusations of bias against Conservatives, then got caught spreading fake news after they replaced their human editors with an algorithm. And after the results, were accused of having (possibly unduly) influenced the result by being an easy way to spread fake news and generate […]
UPDATE. Day 2 and the Census is showing no signs of coming back up. This morning the ABS declared that they’d been hit by four Denial of Service attacks, and after the most serious one decided to take the Census offline. This is not remarkable, but a day later they still have not come back online, […]
The Techcrunch Disrupt NY 2016 gathering was this week, a time that’s marked some pretty interesting times in privacy and security. At the start of the week I came across this survey – the CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Security and Trust 2016. Everyone loves an unwieldy title, and this report had some fascinating results. 57% […]
Where Dragons Dwell 