Personal Information: What's it all 'about'?
For the past few years, a crucial case has been playing out in Australia's legal system over the treatment of metadata in privacy law. The next stanza is due to be written soon in the Federal Court....
View ArticleMobility and the experience of identity
We all know that digital transformation is imminent, but getting there is far from easy. The digital journey is fraught with challenges, not least of which is customer access. "Online" is not what it...
View ArticleIt takes a Virtual Village
In "We are hopelessly hooked" (New York Review of Books, February 25), political historian Jacob Weisberg canvasses the social impact of digital technology. He describes mobile and social media as...
View ArticleOrder emerging from the Blockchain storm
I've been a critic of Blockchain. Frankly I've never seen such a massed rush of blood to the head for a new technology. Breathless books are being churned out about "trust infrastructure" and an...
View ArticleBitcoin's fragile power: It's meaningless
What do land titles, marriage certificates, diamonds, ballots, aircraft parts and medical records have in common? They are all apparently able to be managed "on the blockchain". But enough with the...
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Blockchain, Healthcare and the Bleeding Edge of R&D
Last month, over September 26-27, I attended a US government workshop on The Use of Blockchain in Healthcare and Research, organised by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of the...
View ArticleA critique of Privacy by Design
Or Reorientating how engineers think about privacy. From my chapter Blending the practices of Privacy and Information Security to navigate Contemporary Data Protection Challenges in "Trans-Atlantic...
View ArticleBlockchain visionaries and blockchain awareness
In a Huffington Post blog "Why the Blockchain Still Lacks Mass Understanding" William Mougayar describes the blockchain as "philosophically inclined technology". It's one of his rare instances of...
View ArticleProof of life or what?
A few days ago, it was reported that Julian Assange "read out a bitcoin block hash to prove he was alive". This was in response to rumours that he had died. It was a neat demonstration not only that...
View ArticleBlockchain plain and simple
Blockchain is an algorithm and distributed data structure designed to manage electronic cash without any central administrator. The original blockchain was invented in 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi...
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