If you’ve done nothing wrong…
I caught an interesting blog by Jon Baines over at Information Rights and Wrongs yesterday on data protection and the extent of the “database state”. Jon writes that a data protection officer he knows...
View ArticleWhen it comes to the internet, it’s not just government snooping we should be...
Corporations want your data as much as governments want to snoop.(Image: El Alma Del Ebro in Zaragoza by Saucepolis on Flickr.) Remember the early days of the internet? When start-up companies seemed...
View ArticleSaving the Freedom of Information Act
Houses of Parliament (CC-BY) Back in 2011, David Cameron announced that he was going to change the way government did business. No more hiding information away, making it difficult for people to...
View ArticlePublic libraries and the UK Digital Strategy
Are libraries becoming nothing more than data cash cows for the private sector? Last week the Department for Culture, Media and Sport published its UK Digital Strategy, to much fanfare and eager...
View ArticleThe Manifestos 2017 – a library and information studies perspective
Houses of Parliament. (CC-BY ijclark) You may have noticed there’s an election on the way (hands up if you are fed up with it already *raises hands*). Although it is only a few weeks away now, it...
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