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Digital Strategy: Only the paranoid survive!

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I wrote the original post in March 2010, about the screens of life and the competition to get in your data from the server to the brighly lit screen. The Six screens of life become 7 #mdfp Dark Screen  When writing my digital footprint I updated the Six screen’s of life work originally developed for mobile web 2.0 (extract on read/write web) However, I have now realised that I missed one out.  What is said in summary is that for the most part, we are consumers of content. In our daily lives we consume professionally created, produced and edited content from traditional and new media providers on our ‘six screens of life’. These screens are divided into two broad categories, big screens and small screens, each with three subgroups as per figure 2.   6 screens of life Both for big and small screens, the user has traditionally been a passive receiver of content (content has been broadcast to the user) or the user has been seen as a member of a carefully controlled...

How and when is liking something informed consent ?

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I am just unaware of how consent has become either of these two options?   Which director at either of these businesses has (any) viability of what their companies have done.  I have explored here why optin/ optout needs to come back to the board and these both show great reasons why? How is liking something informed consent ? @sportaustralia How is no option - apart from agree - consent ? @ITV and when I follow the links what do I get - a right old mess.  Change the settings that then gets ignored when I come back to agree, I get the default everything and far far more than you get a better experience - surveillance and tracking goodies. If this not mis-leading I have no idea what qualifies for mis-leading. 

What is the relationship between privacy and transparency?

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Privacy means something unique to everyone and it depends on who you ask, how you ask and in what contest. However, privacy by law gives you the right to be let alone. It should enable you to have a space and freedom away from interference and intrusion. Other more subtle privacy ideas include: Information privacy is the right to have some control over how your personal information is collected and used. Personal privacy taking the general right of everyone but making it better for you than others State privacy. Part of the thinking that legislation such as the "Official Secrets Act" is set up to protect the state above the individual Group Privacy: protecting individuals rights at scale, when considering analysis and re-identification. …….There are lots more Transparency – according to Wiki ….. as used in science , engineering , business , the humanities and in other social contexts, is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are ...

Finally, a Single Unified Theory of Privacy

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Image source:  linking quantum and relativity We love the idea of a single unified theory of everything. One eloquent and beautiful equation which describes everything. It can unfold and from it, all that is, can and will be explained.  It would provide a rationale to the unexplained and a purpose for the unreasonable. Such an equation would have logic, it can be translated into an algorithm, which we can code and run. From this exiliar we can solve all questions of humanity and our future will be predictable. It raises lots of questions. If we found the equation surely we would dissolve the need for a soul, our belief would be worthless, hope would be irrelevant, faith pointless and luck would be a calculation. Chaos and humanity will give way to order and authority — the Matrix was real. Ignoring if possible or if that is what we want, physics helpfully starts to highlight one of many problems of any unified theory. Relativity ( big stuff) has one set of equations a...

Why your data should not be in a #bank!

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The rational your data should not be in a bank or a vault lies in history. When we centralise value (money for instance), it becomes attractive to rob, pinch, steal or walk off with - and protecting it comes at an every increasing cost. In the old language the rational could be summed up as "dynamite and vault"; in our modern language " very attractive  hacker economics"  The centralied deposit(s) become of great interest to those who want take it, control it, and to some who see it as a way to increase their own value.  Centralised works first for the institutions and second for the consumer.  A more subtle part of the conversation (should we trust banks with our data in a big vault) turns to where modern day value comes from with data and that is in the sharing of data. Data in a vault with no access (other than you with your key) has limited value. There is value if you want the bank to monitise your data on your behalf; but that is a different story/ pos...

The Problem of Time and how to predict the future

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Time does not exist, it is something we have created to enable understanding. However time, some measure between two events is an interesting property. When you look at an image (picture) in "Linear time" (streaming) - seeing small pixels/ bits as they pass a point (let not do binary), it is impossible to work out the picture from the pixels.  You need all the streams aligned and when you step back you see the image. Looking at one pixel does not allow you to see the whole. When the separation, of an innovation/ idea to 10 million users, is only time; the question become how far along the journey do you go before the story becomes a picture that most can see, and how near to the end to you have to get before it is clear for everyone? What enables/ allows someone to see a picture before it exists and how many bits/ pixels do you need to have seen ?

Personal Data Companies - the market

April 19 Arkkeo † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with." Camilstore Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." CozyCloud † - "a Personal Cloud you can host, customize and fully control" dappre † "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share" Dashlane † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet. Digitteria † - "...puts people at the heart of managing their data usage. Digitteria’s products allow people to protect and share their information with third parties on their own terms." Digi.me...