Category Archives: Big Data

The immovable opacity of AI meets the irresistible force of privacy

Analytics and big-data processes have been brought to heel by privacy laws. Artificial intelligence may...

If data is a resource, then let’s talk about data assays

This blog is another companion to my on-demand speech at FIDO #Authenticate2022, happening this week...

If data is the new black (gold) how do we protect the supply?

Millions of people, and whole slices of society, are falling foul of bad data. Data...

The regulatory superpower of technology neutrality

The Australian government is currently holding an inquiry into the federal Privacy Act of 1988...

The last thing privacy needs is new laws

World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has given a speech in London, re-affirming the...

The Privacy Shield – another blunt weapon

For many years, American businesses have enjoyed a bit of special treatment under European data...

My opening remarks on privacy at Constellation Connected Enterprise 2015

A big part of my research agenda in the Digital Safety theme at Constellation is...

An identity glut on the Internet of Things

  A superconducting mag lev train. Picture credit: Wikimedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike...

A letter on Free Speech and the Right to be Forgotten

An unpublished letter to New Yorker magazine, August 2015. Kelefa Sanneh (“The Hell You Say”,...

Good, better, BlackBerry

In the latest course of a 15 month security feast, BlackBerry has announced it is...