Monthly Archive: September 2014

A new social contract for personal data

This week marks the launch of Tim Berners-Lee’s new campaign for an internet ‘Magna Carta’. Speaking at the WebWeWant festival in London over the weekend, the ‘inventor of the web’ warned that the basic principles that originally defined the internet...

The worm turns on Personal Data

Take a few snippets from this week’s news. First, Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Open Letter on privacy. Here is what he said: “Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your...

A new goldrush?

Will Apple’s new Watch be as successful as its other iconic products? It doesn’t go on sale until next year so we won’t know for some time. But the move is significant nevertheless, for two related reasons. First, just a...

Personal information and the mesh market

The vulnerabilities of storing our personal data on centralised servers has been brought to light following the unwarranted publication of hundreds of images last week. With many suspecting Apple’s iCloud as the source, something which the company denies, it further...

Internet of Things: Making it real

According to Gartner, the ‘Internet of Things’ is now at the peak of its famous hype cycle. Big numbers are being thrown about. The number of connected objects is estimated to reach 50 billion by 2020, and the potential added...