Privacy By Default Online privacy as a field is a whole new world for many people. Cyber-security is ever-changing as technologies are invented or adapted and old tech is made redundant. It is vitally important that we get to grips with what is at stake here, despite the rapidly shifting… Read More »Online Privacy In The Age of Digital Surveillance
An Issue for the Coming Decade Between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp there are over 3.5 billion active users. That’s almost half the planet’s population. The social media network has become megalithic, ever-present and seemingly irreplaceable. It’s electronic tentacles stretching around the globe and creeping into our lives. Facebook has capitalised… Read More »Forgoing Facebook’s Offerings: Reducing my Digital Footprint
The decade draws to a close As the last few weeks of 2019 fly past in a blur of damp weather, Christmas preparations and constant reminders to vote in the General Election, I have cause to reflect. I want to get a little philosophical, but more importantly, draw out a… Read More »Philosophical Musings for the End of the Decade
Reductionist Quotes A couple of things have piqued my interest in the self-help industry recently and started me thinking of taking more care with my online content. One is that I have begun using my Twitter account a bit more frequently to promote my various digitally-based activities. Twitter is awash… Read More »Reductionist Quotes, Social Media and the Loneliness Survey
A Confidence Trick The internet can be an unnerving and wicked entity, and I’m saying that without even having ventured onto the notorious Dark Web. A couple of weeks ago I paid the equivalent of five dollars to list my blog on a blog directory called Blogarama only to find… Read More »Confidence Trick : Trust and the Online Nemesis
Rise of the Internet Society There has been a subtle and profound change in the nature of relationships between people within society. I want to talk briefly about how this may be affecting us as people; essentially what the rise of the internet society and use of social media means… Read More »The Internet Society and You