People have always been secondary to the technology they have built. Computing developed as people built machines to solve problems more quickly and networks evolved to connect those machines together. Then the World Wide Web made information available and Google made it searchable. As more things moved online, like banking…

The problem with using a centralised exchange is that you are sending your assets to the exchange and the exchange, at that point, is in full control of your assets and your fate. That is not only limited to the assets that you’ve sent to them, but also to how…

July 2021…. …I first wrote on this subject back in April, when “Vaccine Passports” were the all over the media. …

The Swiss have just rejected the idea of a government mandated Digital ID scheme in a referendum by a two-thirds majority. …

Let’s start with what I mean by ‘need’. For as long as anyone can remember we’ve been asked to show ID, or prove our address. The thing is that was in person, at worst people saw a bad passport photo, but the data itself was impossibly difficult to correlate and…

The UK government has this week announced the arrival of their contact tracing app. It’s great that they, led by the team at NHSx, have moved so swiftly to make something available. There are, however, significant concerns about their approach, particularly for privacy. They have decided to go against the…