Architecture, Data and Intelligence

I have been discussing Pay As You Drive (PAYD) insurance schemes on this blog for nearly ten years. The simplest version of the concept va...

Following my post on Ghetto Wifi , I passed a pub yesterday with a sign "Free wifi for customers only". Thought of another persp...

@ futureidentity (Robin Wilton) posted some interesting ideas about Identity versus attributes on his blog. "For an awful lot of s...

Very interesting post from JP ("Confused of Calcutta") about what he calls the customer perspective . I want to call it something ...

Norwich Union has suspended its Pay-As-You-Drive insurance scheme [ BBC News, 14 June 2008 ], announced here two years ago [ Pay As You Driv...

One of the drivers for SOA, both commercial and public sector, is to extend and enrich the opportunities to provide services to customers/ci...

My colleague David Sprott has just posted a critique ( Big Brother Database Dinosaur ) of the latest UK Government proposals [Note 1] for ...

In a post called Preventing Identity Theft , venture capitalist David Cowan explains (referencing Kerckhoffs' principle via Bruce Schnei...

Eighth post in seven days. As regular readers will know, I don't always post this often. But I've got lots of material to share afte...

Adam Shostack's latest post reminds us that It Depends What The Meaning of "Credit Report" Is . For what purpose were social...

This month, I've been looking at some complicated questions of data provenance, data protection and copyright, prompted by a tricky but ...