Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in the ways that information and knowledge is shared between people, and between people and government...
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We're holding an event with Google next Thursday evening at their offices in Victoria. We'll be talking about what's happening to privacy online.
The discussion should touch on some really timely challenges and opportunities. As we do more and more online, large amounts of information about us is created and captured. Much of that underpins the spirit of coolaboration and openness of online life. But what are the implications for the rich values that our sense of privacy embodies? from : petebradwell 29th June 2007 - I know what you did last summer - and I can save you 25% It’s striking how frequently there are stories about the insecurity of our personal information. There’s a few more today – here’s one, predictably about Facebook. They usually revolve around the idea that we don’t realise our personal information is shared, stolen or abused by lots of people and organisations without our knowledge. I suspect most people probably are aware that it happens. But we’re less sure about exactly why, and what the consequences are from : petebradwell 14th August 2007
- The type of information people have matters Big 'Big Brother' headline today, on the front of the Daily Mail. A written answer to a question from the Liberal Democrats shows the number of DNA profiles on the National DNA Database (NDNA), as of 25 October, to be about 4.5 million profiles. I can't find the full written answer online yet, but here's some more coverage of it. Some are duplicates - but the proportion of the population on there seems to be about 6-7%.This isn't really news. The Home Office website proudly boasts that it is... from : petebradwell 5th November 2007
- Crossing the 'e's Yesterday the Prime Minister announced various anti-terrorism measures, including updates on the 'e-borders' program. There's a comment, about the speech and approach generally, from Timothy Garton-Ash here. I thought it was worth mentioning the e-borders news, especially in the light of our upcoming pamphlet on personal information. from : petebradwell 15th November 2007
- For Your Information Demos is launching a new pamphlet about personal information and privacy called FYI: The new politics of personal information, with Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, Bill Thompson and Natalie Haynes. from : petebradwell 15th November 2007
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The new politics of personal information
We've been telling anyone that will listen for a long time that personal information is really important. In the past couple of days it seems like we, and people like the Information Commissioner, have been proved right. The story details some terrible mistakes, but we can't stop with the bad news story. This is an opportunity to open the serious debate we need about how and why personal information is so valuable.
That's a debate we're calling for in the forthcoming pamphlet FYI: The new politics of personal information, which we're launching on 7th December. from : petebradwell 22nd November 2007 -
QDOS
The FYI pamphlet was big on the need for ideas that can help people manage their personal information - and the trail of information we leave behind us that is often called our 'digital footprint'. That tells other people a lot about the kind of things a person likes and, ultimately, the sort of person they are.
So I thought it was worth mentioning Garlik's new tool 'QDOS', which looks like a really interesting and accessible way to start thinking about, and managing, that digital footprint... from : petebradwell 13th December 2007