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What stops Target telling you’re pregnant?

Question: What stops Target from telling that you’re pregnant? Answer: In many parts the world,...

Information companies and the Use Limitation Principle

Google has copped a lot of flak over its move to join up all services...

Niche is a better word for it

With the term “ecosystem” being bandied about so much, I started thinking ecologically last year....

The end of standards

A colleague drew my attention to what he called “yet another management standard”. Which got...

More evidence of the gap between tech and policy

After the scandal broke of how the iPhone app “Path” was accessing users’ address books...

That’s what I call hype

A modest little quote from a biometrics expert caught my eye this week. Neil Fisher,...

Farmers know about silos

Imagine this. Two grain growers are neighbours. One farms wheat and the other corn. Both...

Federation is at odds with infosec best practice – and nature

In modern information security we implore businesses to understand the risks of their particular business...

The birthday paradox and biometrics

The inventor of forensic DNA testing, Dr Alec Jeffreys, has cautioned that once millions of...

Bob is dead

With apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche. The hero of many a crypto folk tale Bob is...