Clik here to view.
Surveillance today: two perspectives, one conclusion – steady as she goes
So. As I tweeted this morning, our dear Google which does no evil actually equals Go & ogle: .@tom_watson @yashalevine #Google = go & ogle. :-/ Not surprising they were military-friendly from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The socialisation of privacy: “And yet … it is we who have collaborated...
I suppose I’m going to be accused of harping on a little here, but – given as we are still to show our surprise at the darned bleeding obvious – let’s proceed as we were looking to anyway. Today,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How things change
Some weeks ago I bought a new coffee maker. It came with no permanent filter. I mentioned this to my mother and she promptly proceeded to give me a box, almost full, of twenty-year-old paper filters...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is this a new kind of censorship? When the act of blogging becomes Kafkaesque?
I’d missed this one, last November/December. Had you? This, as per the Open Rights Group: At the end of November a number of WordPress blog admins complained on WordPress forums that they were having...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cameron & Co now planning to restrict April Fools’ Day right to parody
On the back of an Open Rights Group campaign on protecting/enshrining the right to parody in a modern digital world which came my way about ten days ago, I sent the following email to Vince Cable a few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#DRIP as seen from Spain – magdalenas, torrefacto coffee and all
Just had my morning torrefacto coffee (a dream), with its matching (slightly naughty) magdalena. Meanwhile, since I arrived at one of my traditional cultural watering-holes, I’ve been posting again...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Love means never having to say ‘I trust you!'”
Here’s one for the conspiracy theorists amongst us. Yesterday we got this story from the British Mirror: When teacher Catharine Higginson, 45, discovered by accident that her husband James, 42, had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How an ISP chooses to invade your privacy (whatever choice YOU make)
TalkTalk, my ISP, announced this the other day: If you’ve been reading the news this week you might have seen some media coverage about how TalkTalk is using its filtering system, HomeSafe, to support...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A #hyperlocal publishing project – experiences with #DokuWiki on chester.website
I’m about three days in to a #hyperlocal publishing project. You can see where I’m at by clicking through to chester.website. I bought the domain a couple of days ago, having taken my inspiration in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If Apple’s Tim Cook is right, isn’t he also suggesting we monetise privacy?
An interesting story from the Telegraph today. I’m sure Apple’s Tim Cook’s views are heartfelt, but it’s also a clever case of marketing. Or at least that’s how it strikes me – especially as it’s...
View Article
