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2020: The Silo Wars Intensify. And Your Personal Data?
 2020: The Silo Wars Intensify. And Your Personal Data? 730 470 StJohn Deakins
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Creating a more #sustainabledata ecosystem. Techcrunch has reported that in 2020 Facebook will launch a new Operating System to protect itself against competitors such as Google. And so the ‘Silo…

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Digital Memories: Commerce (part 3)
 Digital Memories: Commerce (part 3) 1620 986 StJohn Deakins
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Like our memory, personal data is owned but  isn’t property. However, personal data as property is the way that the digital economy functions – which corrupts the efficiency, integrity, and…

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Digital Memories: Choosing How We Share (part 2)
 Digital Memories: Choosing How We Share (part 2) 1620 1080 StJohn Deakins
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As much as we might sometimes like to think otherwise, we all need to keep some things private to ourselves. Embarrassing events, shared intimacies, funny ideas, ‘crazy’ thoughts, or just…

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Digital Memories: Personal Data is Just a Memory (part 1)
 Digital Memories: Personal Data is Just a Memory (part 1) 1620 1080 StJohn Deakins
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We’re in trouble. The way we talk about ownership of our personal data needs to change – and fast. Rather than viewing personal data as a commodity, we need to…

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Libra: the four forces driving Zuckerbucks
 Libra: the four forces driving Zuckerbucks 1920 1280 StJohn Deakins
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New global currencies are inevitable but is Facebook Libra the answer? It has been a busy news month for Facebook. Facebook Group (including Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram) is going through…

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Royal Society: Privacy Enhancing Technology
 Royal Society: Privacy Enhancing Technology 2048 2048 StJohn Deakins
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Our global digital society is rapidly changing. In the space of a decade, the concept of  “Privacy” has gone from being an essential human right, to being dismissed as an…

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Becoming digital Citizens: From survive to thrive
 Becoming digital Citizens: From survive to thrive 1920 1281 StJohn Deakins
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“Saving our planet” is now one of the most pressing global issues for humanity. As we progress out of the industrial era into a new era of digital knowledge, the…

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Goodbye AI, hello HIA Knowledge
 Goodbye AI, hello HIA Knowledge 1250 837 StJohn Deakins
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We’ve reached peak “AI”. Every tech startup with a line of code and a calculation is touting itself as the next potential Artificial Intelligence breakthrough. The reality is that 2…

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Is Facebook past its “Use By” Date?
 Is Facebook past its “Use By” Date? 1080 720 StJohn Deakins
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Yesterday, Mark Zuckerburg published a note detailing his new vision for the future of Facebook. Given their troubles in 2018, and the resulting steep decline in public trust, it’s not…

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AI, CitizenMe and You (long read version)
 AI, CitizenMe and You (long read version) 1280 720 StJohn Deakins
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In this combined piece of 7 blog posts, we explain what Artificial Intelligence does, why it’s so useful for us all, what we’re doing at CitizenMe – and what this…

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AI, CitizenMe and You – Part 7: Can it feel?
 AI, CitizenMe and You – Part 7: Can it feel? 800 600 StJohn Deakins
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AI can identify emotions, but it can’t comprehend or ‘feel’ them. Similar to a Sesame Street puppet (or a psychopath) AI may appear to relate to us but it has…

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AI, CitizenMe and You – Part 6: Can it reason?
 AI, CitizenMe and You – Part 6: Can it reason? 3000 2000 StJohn Deakins
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AI, CitizenMe and You – Part 6: Can it Reason? This is the big one. Machine Learning makes decisions based on patterns that it finds in large amounts of data.…

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