About Data Lineage ….. my notes.
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Labour Conference 2016
A friend was doing some research and so I went and found these documents; the conference documents of #lab16. They weren’t hard to find; they are currently on membersnet. I may continue this as a series and I have previously mirrored the rules here, and have also republished the Collins Report on that page. I have…
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New Labour and Party Management
An unfinished white Paper by Emmanuelle Avril of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. The paper is called, The (Unintended) Consequences of New Labour: Party Leadership vs Party Management in the British Labour Party. and was presented to the Political Studies Association 2015 conference, in March so before the election. The abstract states,
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Washer/Dryer
The time has come, here’s my washing machine manual.
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Decorating the GDPR
Here is an image documenting the six data protection principles embedded in the GDPR. I made this using powerpoint and got the pictures from flickr and later from Unsplash. This page both established a URL and allows me to document the image credits. In 2023, I reworked the Principles graphic, which has its own URL.
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Linkedin have been changing their look and feel over the last couple of weeks, possibly since the Microsoft purchase. I don’t find all these things good, as ever, here are my notes.
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Password Managers
I had cause to think about remote Password Managers last week. My conclusions and notes.
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Open Banking
I was pointed at the Open Banking Project and here are my notes, it would seem that this is part of the regulators attempts to introduce more market pressures into retail finance. The ODI page says,
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PC to SMS
There are still people who only use feature phones or even simpler. How can one use a key board to send messages via SMS. Here are my notes, Twitter, ICQ and SMS gateways at the moment. I marked this as deprecated today. The CMS states that this article was created in March 2017, but the…
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Adding an Event to a Calendar
I wanted to add a widget to a wordpress web article that allowed readers to add the event to their calendars. I found the site called, “AddEvent“. Fabulous. Proving that doing one thing well is all a web service has to do.
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Privacy & Human Rights at the UN
In 2013, AFAIK, the United Nations General Assembly, passed the UN Human Rights Commission proposal, The right to privacy in the digital age, the results of this led to the establishment of a Special Rapporteur on Privacy reporting to the OHRC. The SRoP reports once/year to the Human Rights Committee and once each year to…
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New Calendars in Google Calendar are not easily pushed out to the calendar app on Android. Here’s how for v6.0.1.
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Data Havens and Iceland
Some links on Iceland as a data haven, based on research conducted over the winter of 2016/2017.
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Content, exclusivity & profitability
Helen Weeds has published what seems to be a reworking of her Paper, ‘TV Wars: Exclusive Content and Platform Competition in Pay TV’ in the August Issue of the Economic Journal.
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Privat
I made this picture from two found on flickr, the flag is by Rock Cohen CC 2008 BY, the Privat slogan is from a picture by Isengardt CC 2010 BY.
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