It’s 3 years since I examined similarities between the imminent GDPR and MIFID, or to give its full name Markets In Financial Instruments Directive (II). These sweeping regulations tackle two huge, increasingly convergent industries — financial markets and personal data.
What’s been the impact of this ‘double whammy’? The results…
“Minimum Viable Product”
“Game-Changer”
“Disruptive”
“Pivot”
A confession: I’ve been using these words for years, without knowing their origin, or what they really mean.
There – now that’s out I feel a lot better, and it helps to know I’m not alone in my ignorance, as many memes, blogs and…
“Oh, so you’re doing history, not philosophy”
“Privacy is dead. Get used to it. Nothing to think about”
These are some gut reactions from friends and colleagues to Carissa Veliz’s choice of privacy for academic study as Associate Professor at Oxford University. …
It’s the end of the (AdTech) world as we know it…
With Safari and Firefox already blocking cookies by default, and Google planning to phase out support, the old tools and practices around data are being deprecated and up-ended.
The prolonged death of third party cookies is only the latest development in a process that started 10 years ago with laws…
The window for relying on pen-and-paper guestbooks or digital marketing forms and booking systems is closing fast; for security, data rights and safeguarding, that’s a good thing…
The clock is ticking: the UK government recently announced collection of contact details for NHS Test & Trace requirements will be mandatory for…
Writing scares us: creating original prose and sending it out into the world is up there with public speaking as one of the biggest adult anxieties.
Outside the familiarity of emails, messaging and forms the prospect of getting down our ideas, beliefs and hidden weaknesses can paralyse even the most…
Games aren’t what they used to be: I recently reinstalled a copy of the Witcher 3 some five years after I bought it bundled with my then new Xbox One console.
The game hadn’t aged a bit. I plunged into its dark world and complex characters, without a thought for…
Patterns in the jungle. It’s the nature of being human that when we are in the grip of new awareness and excitement for something, then we start to see evidence of it everywhere.
We’ve been working on identity at tapmydata.com and proving to others you are who you claim to…
It is now obvious that nothing will be quite the same for any of us, once the current health and economic crisis around Covid19 has passed. …
