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Peter Bradwell

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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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• google me this, google me that... ...how many search results for my personality came back?
  
  What a gift of a headline the Independent gave us:  "Google is watching you..."  They reported on Google big man Eric Schmidt's suggeston that they ultimately want users to be able to ask questions such as: 'what job should I take' and 'what shall i do tomorrow?' from : petebradwell 25th May 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
• Stop chewing! I can't help but think of those particularly miserly teachers whose hatred of a pupil engaged in any form of mastication knew few bounds.  The BBC reports that the trial to install CCTV cameras with speakers, which bark out admonitions to citizens engaging in particular forms of anti-social behaviour, is being extended to 20 more sites. from : petebradwell 4th April 2007
• Rate my privacy A really useful report from Privacy International - rankings of the major internet companies based on an assessment of their attitudes and practices with regard to their users privacy.It gets its hands dirty at the point where the sharing of information online - and the promises we hear about collaboration and involvement - strike against the protection of information about us and our habits.  Great to see policy and practice laid out like this. from : petebradwell 11th June 2007
• Search me... 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
• You are not anonymous At the home of former file-sharing service Grokster, you will find a stern reminder of the illegality of p2p content sharing - followed by a thoroughly sinister last couple of lines:
  
  "YOUR IP ADDRESS IS xx.xx.xxx.xxx AND HAS BEEN LOGGED.Don't think you can't get caught. You are not anonymous." from : petebradwell 17th July 2007
• Potter Privacy 'Police' Point to Photo 'Prints' Just read on Times online how Canon engineers, joining the hunt for the culprit in the leaked Harry Potter SCANDAL, are showing off their information tracing skills. Using the metadata from the illegally taken photographs of the newest wizard novel - apparently available at the Pirate Bay - they are hopeful that they can track the owner of the camera and, by inference, the thief. Interestingly, they are relying on the owner either having registered the camera, or having had it serviced. ... from : petebradwell 19th July 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
• Global privacy standards? Data and information about us, for reasons fair, foul or just opaque, travels across nations and continents as an almost necessary by-product of whatever it is that we call the information society. But how can we be sure about what that means for who sees that personal information, and how it is used?Google's Peter Fleischer is talking about this today in a speech at a UNESCO conference on ethics and human rights in the information society. He's arguing that we should develop some global... from : petebradwell 14th September 2007
• Hearing difficulties The front page of the Mail on Sunday was rather enjoyable today, expressing as it did tangible outrage at the powers of the amended Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. The story is a great example of how frustrating online newspaper copy can be; but trying to understand the changes it is referring to give a broader sense of how difficult it can be to unravel legislative changes and their impact. The whole process, from inception to commentary, can be pretty opaque.The newspaperFirst... from : petebradwell 30th September 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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