Category Archives: Internet

Suspension of Disbelief and digital safety

If the digital economy is really the economy then it’s high time we moved beyond...

Making cyber safe like cars

This is an updated version of arguments made in Lockstep’s submission to the 2009 Cyber...

The State of the State of Privacy

Constellation Research analysts are wrapping up a very busy 2014 with a series of “State...

Too smart?

An Engadget report today, “Hangouts eavesdrops on your chats to offer ‘smart suggestions’” describes a...

Letter: Online threats do damage

A letter to the editor of The Saturday Paper, published Nov 15, 2014. In his...

An unpublished letter on The Right To Be Forgotten

In response to “The Solace of Oblivion”, Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, September 29th, 2014....

PKI as nature intended

Few technologies are so fundamental and yet so derided at the same time as public...

Dumbing down Snowden

Ed Snowden was interviewed today as part of the New Yorker festival. This TechCruch report...

Four Corners’ ‘Privacy Lost’: A demonstration of the Collection Principle

Tonight, Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners program aired a terrific special, “Privacy Lost” written and...

The Rite To Be Forgotten

The European Court of Justice recently ruled on the so-called “Right to be Forgotten” granting...