Data and Privacy
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When Your Tools Only Work 99% of the Time
What if the tool you use, and your ability to use it, is all down to somebody else? What you think you hold in your hand, that you’ve bought and paid for, can only be used if and when other systems are in place and up and running. What if you bought a thing –…
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Who Actually Controls Your Information?
Quick Summary The AI race isn’t about who builds the cleverest chatbot – it’s about who controls the data, the infrastructure and default settings that billions of people never question. Google and OpenAI are locked in a battle that’s being marketed like a tech thriller, complete with heroes and villains. Strip away the noise and…
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Scammers Have Hijacked Your Year in Review
Your inbox is probably full of year-end roundups. Some are real. Most of them are absolutely bollocks. Scammers have worked out that December is basically open season on our attention spans. We’re expecting these “year in review” emails from Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, and whatever other platforms we’ve wasted our lives on this year. We’re primed…
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The Digital ID Handcuffs Are Already Being Locked In Place
How do they sleep at night? The following piece draws upon verified findings reported by journalist Andrew Orlowski in The Mail on 23 September 2025: “How a whistleblower passed me devastating proof Starmer’s dream of a digital ID card could allow hackers to extort billions from the British taxpayer.” The investigation confirmed that the government’s One Login system, the backbone of the…
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Why Digital ID Is a Serious Security Threat For All
This morning, I got another spoof email. One of those obvious scam attempts pretending to be from somewhere I’d recognise. What wasn’t obvious was the email address they sent it to: an admin@ address on one of my less common domains, one I only use for financial admin stuff like PayPal and Stripe. Not a…