Author Archives: Phil

Age Verification as the new cookie law?

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Phil

Age Verification is just months away from becoming the law and, for all the criticisms to date, opposition to it has been ineffective. When the ‘cookie law’ was introduced in 2011, it was expected by regulators and others that a … Continue reading →

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May the Fourth be with you!

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Phil

It’s Local Election day today where I live, maybe where you live too. What you may not know is the added significance of this and future local elections to the provision of NHS and care services in your area. To … Continue reading →

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What does a Citizen’s View of Government look like?

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Phil

Rather than a “single Government Department” that does whatever it wishes, the alternative is to operate a citizen’s view of Government: a view which doesn’t assume the citizen has to learn how all of Government works – but for which, … Continue reading →

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Text of speech given at Rowntree’s Governance Seminar on The Database State, 22 October 2008

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Phil

I am posting this here, on 20/03/17, as I cannot find a copy elsewhere on the web. This is the text of a speech I gave while I was national coordinator of NO2ID at a CAOS (‘Combining All Our Strengths’) … Continue reading →

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A safer, fairer information society

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Phil

Thoughts in response to Francis Irving’s post, Making our information society safe and fair, to which I added the following comment: I don’t disagree with these, Francis, but would maybe (because I have increasingly tended to come at the problem … Continue reading →

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