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Data is the new Water I: Water gives life (oil takes it)

At the end of 2017 we posted Data Is The New Water in the Huffington Post, describing how the way we frame our language about ‘human data’ can have a major impact on the way the internet develops for us, as humans. We had so many requests to expand each of the ‘seven seas of data’ items of the ‘Data…

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Our Digital Freedom: From Lockdown to Liberty

Cross-post from the HuffingtonPost, 20th April 2016 “Give me liberty or give me death” was the rallying cry of the US revolution. Penned by Thomas Paine at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, his words and those of other Enlightenment thinkers heralded the shift to a new global economic system. They inspired Democratic revolutions in France and the United States and led…

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You’ve reached our press page! If you want to write about CitizenMe or find out more about some of the cool things we’re doing, drop us a message on hello@citizenme.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. For press enquiries, or if you want to use our platform to conduct some research for a story, please…

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System Zero: What kind of AI have we created?

Apparent rapid advances in artificial intelligence are plugging into deep-seated fears we have about the fate of humanity. These fears are not new, they go back as far Kubrick and Asimov’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” an envisaged future. For that film technical advice was provided by Jack Good, one of the originators of the concept of the ‘technological singularity’1. That…

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Daily Telegraph Interview CitizenMe

CitizenMe was in the Daily Telegraph on Friday, an excerpt is below and the full article is here. Thanks to Rebecca Burn-Callander for the interview and asking such great questions. On June 9, serial entrepreneur StJohn Deakins will launch a new platform, CitizenMe, which will not only allow consumers to see all the data held about them by online companies, in a way that is…

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From darkness into lite

Sometimes, it’s not until you’re within reach of a long-held goal that you see it with fresh eyes… As you know, at CitizenMe we’re not just fans of transparency, it’s a value we aim to uphold in all we do. Recently we shared the news of our plans to launch our app on an initial exclusive, invitation-only basis. Then came…

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Your CitizenMe invitation is coming soon!

Exciting news! CitizenMe will be in pre-launch mode on the Apple App Store at the end of this month – access will be via invitation only. If you’ve signed up as one of our ‘pioneer citizens’ and early supporters, we’re thrilled to share this important milestone with you and get your first impressions. So what will CitizenMe do for you? CitizenMe is about giving…

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“Right to self” – solving the biggest problem of the Internet

Were he alive today and busy defining matters of self, the philosopher Descartes might have rationally proposed: I’m digital; therefore I am. And who could argue with that? From mobile social status updates, to apps that silently but persistently report our phone’s location, we are all contributing fragments of our digital selves and furthering the digital evolution of self. In…

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Welcome

Hi and welcome to the CitizenMe blog! Life is about balance. We all want to use great apps and amazing internet services. Connecting, participating, sharing – who wouldn’t? Simultaneously, we want control. To have control of our own data, to see how our digital identity is being used, bought and sold.  To know where our personal data goes. To understand…

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