We are delighted to be featured as a case study in the Future of Digital Identity, a new report from Future Agenda. As the report's executive summary notes, in a world that is becoming evermore digitally connected, how we resolve our digital identities will prove to be a fundamental underpinning, as well as an enabler, … Continue reading Digi.me featured in Future Agenda’s Future of Digital Identity report
We were delighted to see digi.me name-checked in an important new report on data privacy from the Royal Society, the world's oldest independent scientific academy. Protecting Privacy in Practice examines how we realise the full potential of large-scale data analysis in a world in which the scale and rate at which data is collected, used … Continue reading Digi.me featured in Royal Society report on protecting privacy in practice
I read an excellent and thought-provoking article this week, on what privacy means to people and how that should apply to tech and app design. Its specific focus was on Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg's so-called privacy pivot, but the themes it explores are universal. Notably, what does privacy even mean? The answer here (and there will … Continue reading Why privacy starts with people
We've spent many, many hours over the last few years banging a drum globally in person and on paper about the critical importance of personal data privacy in creating a better world. Of how that privacy - and all the benefits it fuels, such as data-driven innovation and personalised healthcare - can only flow from … Continue reading It’s time to share our full digi.me vision with the world
We're very proud to be sponsoring something a bit special later this month - two related hackathons in Finland and Iceland that together form the Nordic Health Hackathon. The two countries are coming together under one umbrella to find innovative uses for health data, in yet another demonstration of the momentum latching on to the … Continue reading Pushing on the health data revolution through the Nordic Health Hackathon
Our US CEO Shane Green has been making waves across the pond with a bylined opinion column in the Washington Examiner (plus accompanying video) emphasising why we shouldn't take Mark Zuckerberg's 'privacy pivot' at face value. The Facebook founder's statement has come in for criticism because, while it was big on rhetoric, it posed no … Continue reading Don’t be fooled by Facebook and privacy: digi.me’s op-ed in the Washington Examiner
I was struck recently by how technology often creates new problems even as it solves old ones. Take the internet - great and wonderful in so many ways, clearly. From the opportunity to buy pretty much anything remotely and get it delivered right to our door, to easily finding out as much as we want … Continue reading The constant challenge of innovation
