SUMMARY: Fancy becoming a person of no fixed identity languishing in prison for breach of copyright? Then it’s time you thought about a personal API to protect yourself, argues Chris Middleton. Where’s your identity? Last week I sat in on …

We all need a personal API in an age of Spotify privacy policies Read more »

Below is my comment to Sean Vitka’s piece “How to protect privacy when releasing open data” on the Sunlight Foundation website here. === Hi Sean, I’m sorry but the anecdote you start from breaks the consistency of your entire post, …

Data released for transparency does not make it open Read more »

Zippy apps and festive hackathons take a backseat this week, as the serious work of privacy mitigation and transparency in legislation get a leg up, and the people express their right to neighborhood crime data. Plus: NASA brings the world …

Civic Awesome: Open Data in the News for the Week of July 27, 2015 Read more »

I decided to write a positive blog about Open Data; it’s an area I believe has a lot of potential and value. The only problem is that once I started I began to think about the complexities of it, it’s …

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of Open Data Read more »