Category Archives: Data Protection

Stepping stones from Digital Identity to Data Protection

Image Copyright © Stephen Wilson, 2018. Here, in Part 3 of my Rethinking Digital Identity...

Rethinking Digital Identity Part 2: Hot takes

Image Copyright © Stephen Wilson, 2018. Continuing my rethink of digital identity, here are some...

Rethinking Digital Identity as Data Verification (synopsis)

Image credit: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Licence BY-SA 4.0. Part 1 Digital identity...

Gen AI and Gen PI

Not that I’m a lawyer! But I’m giving a short speech on AI regulation at...

Making data valuable

In the latest episode of our podcast Making Data Better, George Peabody and I are...

In praise of metadata

The term metadata has become rather loaded—perhaps even poisoned—for its association with telecommunications surveillance. But...

Australia heads to a uniform governance regime for all data

I’ve been speaking and writing a lot recently about the newly legislated Australian Government Digital...

Talking Digital ID with NAB

I was delighted to appear on the latest NAB Digital Next podcast in conversation with...

The spectre and distraction of a single ID

About Making Data Better episode 9, “The Bigger Step: Want a Single Digital ID?” The...

Can a metaphor be too good?

Digital wallets are necessary but not nearly sufficient for effective verifiable credentials. Here I look...