Britain has “sleepwalked into a surveillance society”, it was claimed last night after figures disclosed that public bodies had obtained access to private telephone and e-mail records about 1,400 times a day. Council, police and other organisations made more than half a million requests for confidential communications data last year. The statistics constitute a 44 per cent rise in requests over the past two years.

Spelletjes, 'speciale' acties; het kunnen er niet genoeg zijn voor SBS om de databank te vullen met persoonsgegevens, teneinde communicatie over programma's en (vooral) voor adverteerders persoonlijker te maken. Dat levert binding en geld op.

'Ken uw kijker, luisteraar, bezoeker, klant!' Dit klinkt modern, is zelfs noodzakelijk. Wat vindt er plaats op dit terrein van de zogenoemde customer relationship management in en buiten Hilversum? Wat betekent privacy? Een inventarisatie.

What is more important, the rights of the mass, or the rights of the individual. In the western world we tend to assume an inverse relationship between individual rights and social control. More social control leads to less individual rights and vice versa. Marshall suggests that individual rights may be less important than the ‘greater cause’ of being able to provide more value to users if data is freely accessible.

Seemingly, the culture of “open” has infused even the most conservative and blood-thirsty organizations with companies falling over each other to claim the mantle of being the most open of them all. So we won, right? I wouldn’t say that. In fact, I think it’s now when the hard work begins.

Een beetje actieve burger op internet en in het maatschappelijk verkeer kan met persoonlijke data in duizenden bestanden staan. Van degene die probeert te ontsnappen ('de kluizenaar') blijft het aantal 'beperkt' tot 250. Het gemiddelde ligt naar een ruwe schatting op '250 tot 500 bestanden' per persoon.

Mensen accepteren de steeds ruimere gegevensverwerking omdat zij het gevoel hebben dat het onvermijdelijk is en steken daarom de kop in het zand. Hun acceptatie is niet gebaseerd op vertrouwen in een zorgvuldig gebruik van hun gegevens. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (CBP)

Het College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens is een onderzoek gestart om te toetsen hoe de RET omgaat met de afhandeling van privégegevens.

Langdurige centrale opslag van alle reisdata van de OV-chipkaart is overbodig. Trans Link Systems dacht dat de fiscus dit verplichtte, maar dat is niet het geval.

Data, marketing, information, YOU - that's where the money is. Chris Rock the comedian said it best: "There's no money in the cure, the money is in the medicine". There's no money in selling you a one time boxed product. The money is in establishing an addiction that goes beyond asking you to come back for more, but promising you a better more powerful high, each time you contribute more to the social cloud. You might say, "I don't mind being advertised to if it keeps services free". But how much of your data are comfortable with being bought and sold? Your online searches for the last month? Sure why not. But how about your first name being attached to those records? (possible by cookie). Big business has commoditized your data, and it is now being bought and sold en mass, this is already an established fact. Don't get me wrong, I'm a user of Facebook, Digg, Flickr, etc. but I do my best to give post as little about myself as possible to get the most of what I want to get out of tho

Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.

23andMe offers a high-density, custom genome scan. A small saliva sample of you DNA is processed The resulting data is then presented on a secure website using interactive tools that offer information about ancestry, inherited traits and disease risk. It provides you with hundreds of insights into your genetics, and these are regular updated.

Open Data Definition allows you to copy your data from one social network to another, keep track of your friends network and synchronise your data across services. Simple to use and trivial to implement, this is your fastest route to true data portability.

"I'm now completely obsessed with a brand new class of personal lifestyle gizmos - a class that is very much in sync with the emergent energy puritanism that I find myself unexpectedly interested in after An Inconvenient Truth. The class of objects is 'th