The information barons threaten our autonomy and our privacy
My latest post on The Guardian: As we share more of ourselves online we become easier to predict and control, how can we address this imbalance of power in the…
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Welcoming Lisa Matzi
We’re excited to share that Lisa Matzi has joined the team this month. Lisa recently graduated from the Design for Graphic Communication course at the London College of Communications. She…
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Welcoming Ryan Garner
I am *very* pleased to share that Ryan Garner has joined the team at CitizenMe. Ryan and I have been talking for quite a while about the pressing need to…
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How Africa can benefit from the data revolution
My latest post for The Guardian on the data revolution in Africa: Locally-driven data projects across the continent can enable the infrastructure to bring about economic change The UN has…
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The data driven economy will help marketers exploit us
My latest post of The Guardian: The internet of things will improve marketers’ understanding of consumers, enabling them to better advertise products we don’t need The mathematical basis of rational…
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How to prevent creeping artificial intelligence becoming creepy
My latest post for The Guardian on artificial intelligence: With successful AI emerging slowly and almost without us noticing, we must improve the understanding between human and computer. The traditional…
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Let’s learn the rules of the digital road before talking about a web Magna Carta
My latest post for The Guardian: Technology is moving so fast we’re only beginning to understand how it will change society. It’s too early to distill our thinking to an…
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Vote for CitizenMe to bring the privacy debate to SXSW
We want consumer privacy issues to take centre stage at next year’s SXSW Interactive – but we need your vote to make it happen! CitizenMe is teaming up with…
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PhoneGap: nearly there – but not quite
A while back I wrote about an internal proof of concept we were doing in order to port our app to Android using PhoneGap. The exercise was time boxed to…
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When going Native is simply too costly
As a small start-up in the privacy and identity space we are coming to the realisation that developing a native mobile app on multiple platforms is not very scalable and…
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