Category Archives: Privacy

Handout: How a data protection infostructure can safeguard value chains

Data-sharing is now a social and economic imperative, yet the risks have become obvious. Part...

Handout: Trust in the 
post-identity world

The digital discourse is dominated by identity. Is a paradigm shift coming? What if we move...

‘Owning’ your own data is just a metaphor

The rhetoric of Web3 is full of claims that it’s all about, in part, the...

Identerati: disrupt yourselves!

I closed my Identiverse 2022 keynote speech with an observation and a plea: “If zero...

Make data better: on the Optus breach

Data is not actually the problem with the Optus breach; it’s the quality of the...

The regulatory superpower of technology neutrality

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

A critique of Privacy by Design

Or Reorientating how engineers think about privacy. From my chapter Blending the practices of Privacy...

Blockchain, Healthcare and the Bleeding Edge of R&D

Last month, over September 26-27, I attended a US government workshop on The Use of...

Personal Information: What’s it all ‘about’?

For the past few years, a crucial case has been playing out in Australia’s legal...

Uniquely difficult

I was talking with government identity strategists earlier this week. We were circling (yet again)...