The Register on whether the EU’s new #GDPR is so much a shield as a sieve, since their are a number of opportunities for national parliaments to weaken it. The IT industry has already considered if Judges & Courts can/should be considered to be an insider attack, now we can add national legislatures; there is little doubt that under the current government, any tuning of the GDPR will be pro-business, pro-spy and anti-privacy, although they are currently busy legalising Plod’s ability to break the Misuse of Computers Act. I also reckon they need something that they don’t care about to use up Parliamentary time after the referendum. …
Ownership
Margin Call! Fired man tries to call a cab on his office mobile, which his ex-employer has cancelled. Another reason for ensuring you have your own.
Interest
I thought that market interest rates were set by central banks, via their duty as the lender of last resort, special deposits and capital reserve ratios.
Justice
At the Lewisham Deptford Labour Party meeting last night, there was a score draw, it voted to nominate the right wing slate, except Eddie Izard and voted to condemn the witch hunts and exclusions, and called for the reinstatement of our excluded comrade, Jill Mountford. Personally, I’d like to thank the small “caucus for justice” who switched sides to support Jill and due process.
Power
I am preparing a blog on Labour’s Conference and don’t want to lose the following words: we need to abolish the NPF, reinvigorate our policy making and initiation, enhance the process with word class IT, and this is difficult. Look at Facebook, Digg, Slashdot & Reddit, non of which are great examples, but we need to solve the problems of continuous development, intellectual bandwidth and equity in funding policy development. Under Miliband, we continued as if in Government with shadow ministers spending “Short money” on reviews, taking advice that reinforced their own prejudices; the result was on the whole mediocre and basically flushed down the toilet when the Party leadership took fear at the private polls over the winter of 2014/15.
Piss
Goldsmith: Do you smell piss?
Johnson: Wot?
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Innovation
I had reason to review one of my 2006 blog posts, on management and innovation in I.T. and added two comments on COBIT & innovation and Silicon Valley season three. …
London elects
Labour’s team remains the same size, but Leonie Cooper’s victory in Merton & Wandsworth means that Murad Quareshi fails to make it on to a London wide place. …
London elects
#londonelects, are Labour doing so well in the GLA seats that their list candidates are in trouble?
Research
Just been looking for images to decorate a presentation. Truly annoying that the legal default is “All rights reserved” and that you therefore have to document/assert images as public domain or CC0. It rather obviates the gift of public domain; they’ll be requiring we document the research that establishes our right to use next. …