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Last Week on my Mac: a tragedy to freedom in two Acts

How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.

December 4, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

iCloud, Spotlight, and Time Machine

When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?

November 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Data protection: Europe might be getting it righter

European data protection law is at last changing, but not just yet, and we’re not sure how.

April 15, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The protection of privacy in medical research and clinical audit

Compare the approaches to privacy in medical research with those in commercial marketing.

March 11, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Who protects your health data?

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Much of our data protection and privacy law dates from the last century. Instead of breaking privacy down, politicians should be protecting it better.

March 10, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

No Safe Harbor: how one court ruling has blown data protection apart

Will Europe now force the US to swallow its data protection laws? Look to Dickens for his opinion.

October 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Privacy should be determined by the point of delivery

Services should comply with data protection law at the point of delivery, not where they choose.

August 25, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Data aggregation: how it can break privacy

Because of the ease of data aggregation, all data for individuals or small groups needs to be treated as if it was personal data.

August 24, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Privacy policies: how they do not protect us

How do Apple, Google, and Spotify say they protect your personal data, and should you trust them?

August 22, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Ashley Madison, the press and data protection

Current UK and EU data protection law was drafted before Google or the Cloud existed, and fails to protect us in many ways.

August 21, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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