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...
"profiling"
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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 - Did Columbo need DNA? There's some coverage on the BBC website of the 'DNA database' - the store that since 2004 has held the DNA of anyone arrested for a recordable offence. Apparently it's the biggest in the world - 5.2% of the country is on it. Part of this revolves around whether taking select samples of DNA (only from those arrested) is an equitable way to compile a database. The issues range from whether it is right that DNA can be kept on record even if the person is not charged (which is what happens now)... from : petebradwell 5th September 2007