A digital existence, often related to the digital footprint people leave as they navigate our heavily inter-connected existence, is like a trail left by a modern day net-running Hansel and Gretel in the cyber forests. When we click "accept" or "submit" or other interactive elements; scroll through a feed filled with adverts and hyperlinks with their insistent calls to like and dislike; buy a quirky object online; save a link to a note-app or repost to our own feeds; we drop a digital breadcrumb to say where we have been and what we did there.
I asked them if they knew the devices that were used to access the data? When they accessed the data? What security was on each device? I also asked if they used simple security such as two factor auth everywhere? Crucially I asked if they logged who had access? When they had access? What they had access to?
In regards to business activities you have another vector for potential data legislation headaches. That can be a security threat, data processing that is out-of-scope (or in breach of rights or consent) or even uncertainty about where your data goes and what actions are performed on it. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
Time and again we have seen how this holds people back from pursuing their core work. You are too busy trying to stop being bitten by swamp sharks that you didn’t notice how far you sunk into the creek and how close the water has come to drowning you.
If you are using almost any modern office tools you are likely using some form of […]
AI-assisted development has pretty much become the standard manner of software creation, especially greenfield projects or prototyping advancements and replacements. That is affecting how, and what, we consider the importance, or focus, is for software engineers. The balance between speed and what you create, or control, has fundamentally altered.
Because it isn't just about the competency, or the ability to do something with a degree of accuracy and efficiency; nor is it just speed, reproducibility or cost. it is about the experience and the emotional response, and by that I mean that having a lot of one will trigger the other.
“Gobby turned a room of community voices into ranked, funder-ready evidence before we left the building.”
— Dr Jaclyn Harron, Lumen Edge Data Consulting
We have left the dystopian lands of "move fast and break stuff" to a procedurally generated island surrounded by sharks, with cannibalistic natives eating any code that disagrees while playing dice with corporate environments.
Matt’s parents, Adrian and Sandra, were both interred at Much Hoole (https://www.muchhoolewoodlandburialground.co.uk/) which is a woodland […]
