The opening line of Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities” neatly captures the tenor of the current turmoil in the world of personal data. Or, as the Chinese curse says: “may you live in interesting times”… and we certainly live in interesting times. Hardly a day passes without, on the one hand, news of novel, imaginative and clever ways of using personal data, and on the other hand, tales of dat... »
The propositions that Handshake is built upon seem quite simple in principle (see Duncan White’s “What is Handshake” post? ): 1: information is valuable 2: there are people who have information, such as their personal data, and there are people who want that information, such as advertisers, analysts and businesses of all kinds 3: both people can benefit if they can work out a mutually acceptable ... »
Stage the First: As we go about our daily lives we generate personal data: what we read, buy, people we talk with and things we do can be, and are tracked by companies whose basic business plans depend on their ability to stalk us. The first stage in regaining control of our personal data is to eliminate or at least to reduce as far as possible the data we produce (and give away) as we go about ou... »
