A warning: open data should not be swallowed up by private companies
MPs in the UK have said in a new report that the public should have an 'inherent right' to government data
Data privacy
How to make a healthcare data sharing controversy worse
You’ve got to hand it to the UK government. If there was one way to make its plans to build a hugely controversial database of patients data even more controversial it would to be hand the contract to build it to outsourcing giant Atos.
Back to 1984 as UK politicians erase history from the internet
We have always been at war with Eurasia. We never promised more open government. We have not said we'd match the previous government's spending commitments. We have not attempted to rewrite uncomfortable realities.
What GMail knows about me and you
You can now visualize all your connections. these show us patterns of activity between people and those in groups that will be familiar to us. But what does this say about our privacy and what are the implications for business?
Open necked for open data at the G8
Overshadowed by arguments about Syria and the vexed but all important 'tie or open necked' question for the photo calls, the leaders of the G8 countries did good this week with the signing of the Open Data Charter (ODC). But let's make it stick in practice.
