Author Archives: Stephen Wilson
There’s nothing precise about Precision Medicine
The media gets excited about gene therapy. With the sequencing of genomes becoming ever cheaper...
The latest FIDO Alliance research
I have just updated my periodic series of research reports on the FIDO Alliance. The...
Correspondence in Nature magazine
I had a letter to the editor published in Nature on big data and privacy....
What do privacy’s critics have to hide?
Yawn. Alexander Nazaryan in Newsweek (March 22) has penned yet another tirade against privacy. His...
Card Not Present fraud shows no sign of turning
The Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA) releases card fraud statistics every six months for the...
The Google Advisory Council
In May 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that under European law, people...
Mar
Parents: Be careful what your kids wish for
A few weeks ago, Samsung was universally condemned for collecting ambient conversations through their new...
Free search.
Search engines are wondrous things. I myself use Google search umpteen times a day. I...
Mar
The Creepy Test
I’m going to assume readers know what’s meant by the “Creepy Test” in privacy. Here’s...
Mar
On pure maths and innovation
An unpublished letter to the editor of The New Yorker, February 2015. My letter Alec...