Inside View

A Holistic View of Competition #privacy

Image from Alex Castro in The Verge. IN A MAJOR case against Facebook, the US government is defining "harms" in a holistic way. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges harm occurs if a company buys another company specifically to...

Privacy Discussion around the Breakfast Table

I WONDER if I should startle my primary school children with discussions about what other people can see and hear. After I made a short audio clip on Anchor (an app you can get on Android and iOS) about this idea, I started to wonder if ...

Hammering Away State Secrets

Photo snapped by @topgold of Kitty hammering away on the Berlin Wall. YEARS AGO, WE used to pulverise components to ensure they were never read or used again--just like I watched happen when the Berlin Wall came down and Stasi agents de...

Perils of BYOD

TO BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE doesn't mean that it will work on the desk (or in the quiet corner) where you place it. That's something a lot of IT managers try to articulate to their companies and it's something that emerged during the firs...

Who Looks at My Cameraphone Shots

LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, I tap and accept app prompts when asked by apps for permission to access my phone's photo album. Doing that may allow an app to copy and store my images on another server. And if you believe Nick Bilton, after you ...

Four Years on Twitter

I STARTED LISTENING to Twitter back in October 2006 and followed Liam Burke into the Twitterverse on the 7th of December 2006 on the day that Jaiku's robin started bugging me. I've a little copy book containing scrawled notes from mid-Oc...

Being Social is More than Managing Pipes

LEO LAPORTE, a voice I respect, has turned against Google Buzz. In a tweet heard around the world, Leo said, "I have had an epiphany due to this Buzz thing. Social media isn't content. It's narcissistic crap. No one cares. I've been wast...

Technocratic Surveillance

IT'S EASY TO FIND discussion online about the legality of public photography and I knew I was being observed by at least two cameras when I snapped a shot above Dublin Airport's departure area (at left). The CCTV cameras that watched me ...

Comparing Trends with @pkellypr

MORE THAN many Public Relations specialists in Ireland, Piaras Kelly knows more than he can possibly share during a client meeting. That's an apparent conclusion most Sunday Business Post readers will draw as he shares five trends with C...

Qik News

WHILE ON THE ROAD, I made a 12-minute Qik News Clip that culled some Irish broadsheet highlights from the Sunday Times (ST) and Sunday Business Post (SBP). I'm trying to make my Sunday broadsheet review a weekly thing so the clips can be...

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