Sean Things Aloud

The United Nation has a privacy chief and his name is Joseph Cannataci and he has called for a Geneva Convention on Internet Privacy. Here is the article in question: http://goo.gl/8Xbvm3 The UN has called on governments to respect the right to privacy especially as governments intrude more and more on individuals and companies. The cited example was the NSA spying on the UN. Cannataci singles out the UK for spying on its own citizens especially with the number of CCTV's now. However it is not clear how a Geneva Convention on Internet Privacy will make things better. It is hard enough for citizens and business to understand and know their rights and duties under existing regulations. This is only complicated with the impending EU Data Protection Regulation. Because data is intangible there is still along way to go for companies to see it as an asset owned by the individual and given in good faith to the organisation to use fairly and legally and to look after it securely for the or...

Today we hear the announcement that Sergy and Larry have formed a new company called Alphabet. Google will become a subsidiary of Alphabet. This was kept very quiet and commentators are saying that nobody in Silicon Valley had any idea. So it was with interest that I quickly looked up the company which is found at abc.xyz. What a catchy domain address. Doing a WhoIs lookup reveals this domain was purchased in March 20 th, 2014. Quiet some time ago now and no doubt the thinking started even earlier. The WhoIs records where updated today as well and the registered company is MarkMonitor which is owned by Thomson Reuters who's purpose is to “protect the world’s leading brands”. So a lot of speculation but one thing is for sure this decision was not taken overnight. The thinking is sound and, as Larry says, it will help them to make each company "cleaner and more accountable". Lets see what new they do as ABC.XYZ.