An interesting article by Adam Tanner on the Forbes website in which he traces where one particular piece of junk mail came from. Tanner is a fellow at Harvard University’s Department of Government and is writing a book on the business of personal data. He’s looking for answers to questions such as who are the people and firms gathering such information? What details are they putting together, how... »
Trust is a little word, but it deals with some very big issues, from what it means to be human to the wealth of nations. And it’s time that business took it seriously. Graham Greene, the English novelist and playwright, perhaps summed it up most concisely: “It is impossible to go through life without trust: to do so is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself” From the moment we are born... »
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... »
