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Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:31 PM

Blockers. What would we want from IE 8... or 9

I have used this blog to grumble about "Flash turds" - those super-annoying adverts whose determination to grab the eye brings them to the point of being a test for epilepsy. I'm not seeing many of them being built in Silverlight, yet, but it
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:17 AM

One of our laptops is missing.

A snowclone I guess, with films like one of our Aircraft is missing , and Thomas Dolby's " One of our submarines" ("One of our Submarines is missing, tonight. Seems she went aground on manoeuvres" ) something with a slightly military edge to it. The latest
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:36 PM

7M families personal data mislaid by government.

At Tech-ed IT Forum I went to watch a couple of Steve Riley's session, he's quite the showman, but I'd never been to watch him in action - I found he got me to think about stuff I already knew in a new way. One question he threw out to the audience. "How
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:56 AM

Should we be working on our privacy ranking ?

Steve characterizes some conversations as being "You suck." "No - You Suck" types, and Privacy international published a report last week which rated a couple of dozen organizations with a major presence on the web. The BBC fared pretty well. Google came
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:57 AM

Privacy again

I've managed to get a lot of my concerns about privacy down to a simple statement. "Databases of everything" worry me. Where we've been, what we've bought, who we've associated with. I alluded to a conversation I was in last week where we talked about
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:16 PM

When the police think we're becoming a Surveillance society...

Here's an interesting factlet. A couple of miles from my house, in one of those villages with a double-barreled name which could belong to an old English actor, behind a 900 year old English parish church, is the grave of George Orwell . I've mentioned
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Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:57 PM

If your data is in the cloud... where's your privacy ?

Another story which has been doing the rounds this week, has been stories that has been the rounds this week has been about a crack for HD DVD content ... Catching up on my reading I found Sharon's post Who controls your data . There are a couple of issues
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Saturday, May 05, 2007 3:10 PM

Privacy. And a tale of headless riders, Police blogs and security theatre

When dealing with data privacy, we need to think about proper use of Personally Identifiable information (PII) - the kind which can be used to identify someone and which tells us something about them. In the UK, the Information Commissioner , oversees
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