A 15 year old boy went viral. Making and sharing a 15 second music video on the hugely popular online service Musical.ly, lip syncing and gesturing with what appears to be his dying grandfather in the background. ‘What’s up with … Read More
This is a chapter from the book Data Ethics – The New Competitive Advantage by Gry Hasselbalch and Pernille Tranberg published September 2016. Several significant lawsuits prompting large-scale media debate and political discourse have focused on American tech giants’ treatment … Read More
Blog. Employees in most companies and organisations use the browsers that are preinstalled on their work devices – that is probably Chrome, Safari or Explorer. Some add an additional option themselves like Firefox or Opera. However, few people know that … Read More
Chapter from the book Data Ethics – the New Competitive Advantage, published September 2016. “We’re concerned that the EC’s proposed data protection reforms will put European businesses at a competitive disadvantage in a global market, by placing restrictive controls and … Read More
Blog. A number of companies market themselves with their approach to customers’ data and privacy and differentiate themselves from multinational data giants. One of the better examples that has built a brand that is synonymous with privacy is Apple. One … Read More
Blog. Our lives are lived in data. Data crossing borders and connected in virtual space. Most often, it appears, we live in open and too easily accessible data networks. States and corporations are watching us through data, and we are … Read More
Analysis. If the new EU data protection regulation is enforced equally for EU and non-EU companies, supported by anti-trust and consumer protection laws, new types of data-based monopolization could be controlled. In this millennium’s first decade, a thriving social network … Read More
Published first in the Daily Dot 23rd October 2016. How come Facebook knows that I have a mother with Alzheimer’s, a woman asked the other day. She was sure that she hadn’t provided the social medium with such sensitive information. … Read More
Blog. A group of start-ups is trying to change the digital infrastructure from multinational control of personal data to individual control of our own data. It is so new and it’s called everything from Personal Data Stores, the My Data … Read More