Tag Archive: personal data landscape

Groundbreaking research on the personal information economy

New research by Ctrl-Shift (to be published on 9 June 2014) will look at the business and economic impact of Personal Information Management Services (PIMS) – personalised services that help individuals collect and their own data for their own purposes...

CTRLio is helping consumers manage their personal data assets

CTRLio is a digital profile management service which aims to help users control and benefit from their personal data. By handing back control of personal data assets to individuals CTRLio believes businesses will develop more engaging commerce. The London-based company...

Tracking the changing personal data landscape

Do you want to keep abreast of the key international commercial, technical and legal/regulatory developments and commentary around the changing personal data landscape? Ctrl-Shift produces a weekly Market Watch update tracking events, announcements and new services of interest as the...

Rethinking Personal Data: an interview with William Hoffman from WEF

The World Economic Forum’s Rethinking Personal Data Initiative has reached its third stage. The programme has already defined the value of personal data as an asset class and reinforced the value of trusted data flow. The third stage will bring...

An interview with DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is search engine with a unique selling point that it puts users’ privacy first. The Prism scandal created concern among web users as to what information companies like Google collect about them and how this data is used. In...

BIS announce the launch of the midata Innovation Lab

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has officially announced the opening of the midata Innovation Lab (mIL) today. Consumer Affairs Minister Jo Swinson said: “Today’s most successful businesses are the ones that are creative about building customer relationships. The new...

‘Brand wars’ make personal data a strategic commercial issue

To see just how vicious the privacy battle between Microsoft and Google is getting, take a look at Microsoft’s parody of Google’s latest ad campaign. It’s one minute of extraordinary content. Of course Microsoft has its own commercial agenda. For...

An opportunity for breakthrough cost savings

New research published by Ctrl-Shift today (Breakthrough Efficiency Summary) today shows organisations could achieve dramatic cost savings/efficiency improvements by connecting to new businesses providing data services to individuals. Organisations in both public and private sectors currently struggle with multiple, constant headaches...

Cheap Energy Club – pointer to the future?

To get a glimpse of the future of consumer empowering services take a look at MoneySavingExpert’s new initiative the Cheap Energy Club – a price comparison service that not only compares prices but understands the behaviours and attitudes that stop...

When Open Data meets personal data

A few years ago, as part of the Open Data movement, Transport for London begin releasing data about the movements of buses and tubes through London. Big deal. So what? What does it matter to most Londoners if the...

Time to scrap ‘informed consent’

As another International Privacy Day comes round again it’s time to question something at the heart of European privacy legislation – the notion of ‘informed consent’. Good intentions ‘Informed consent’ was created with the best of intentions. But in its...

Learning from HMV

Many people have a nice, neat explanation for the demise of UK music and video retailer HMV. Senior management should have acted sooner, when they had the time and the resources to respond to the Internet threat (from online retailers...

Can Barclays really change?

It’s really quite something when a CEO as senior as Barclays’ Antony Jenkins’ takes a stand as he has over the need for corporate values that build trust. In his recent letter to staff Jenkins admits that like other banks,...

midata legislation begins

Last night the Government lodged an amendment to the Enterprise and Regulator Reform Bill in the House of Lords to give the midata programme legislative backing. The amendment enables the Secretary of State to make regulations to companies to provide...

Building relationships for a new data age

When we researched the changing personal data landscape a year ago we identified two underlying trends. Historically, organisations have acted as the data manager and user. But now individuals are becoming managers of their own data and using information as...