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
If 2018 was the year that the European Union made clear its views on the importance of personal data privacy via the GDPR, then 2019 is set to be the year when the rest of the world follows suit. The year is still young, yet has already seen impassioned debate on the subject at the … Continue reading Why privacy is increasingly a global agenda
This Data Privacy Day, we are more optimistic than even before that that the message of how our personal data is being misused every day, and how we can all take action to safeguard it, is hitting home. The very high profile privacy-related events of last year, which include GDPR being implemented and the Facebook … Continue reading Take back control of your personal data on Data Privacy Day 2019
From GDPR to Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, 2018 was a year where personal data privacy was pushed front and centre of the public consciousness and debate as never before. So the big question now is how will events in 2019 take on and develop this? Here are our predictions for the next 12 months: … Continue reading Personal data and privacy predictions for 2019
Today I will be introducing the subject of personal data and looking at an optimistic vision of how we can do more with personal data with privacy, security and consent by giving back control to the individual. If we embrace this change, then we can make the UK the leader of a new personal data … Continue reading Creating an Internet of Me: Julian Ranger’s talk on the opportunity to do more with personal data from the Big Tent Ideas Festival
The Big Tent Ideas Festival, which aims to open up discussion and ask the big questions around social, technological and economic renewal, is back for a second year - and our founder and Executive Chairman Julian Ranger will be speaking. Taking place at the Babraham Research Centre just outside Cambridge on Saturday, September 8, the … Continue reading See digi.me’s Julian Ranger at the Big Tent Ideas Festival on Saturday
We're delighted to announce that digi.me was chosen as the winner of the Life Changer category at the Digital Innovators 2018 competition last night. The award, which is the culmination of the Digital Innovators Power List chosen last year by international law firm Bird&Bird, saw 50 companies whittled down to a final six. Each pitched … Continue reading We’re Digital Innovator WINNERS
