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March 29, 2023

Designing Data Governance

Privacy by design calls for data governance to be designed into technology systems in which they operate. But if we can embed it into the code of digital public infrastructure that is deployed at scale through society, it could be far more effective.

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March 1, 2023

The Unified Ledger

If we believe that the future of money will be completely digital it will be possible for us to tokenise everything. This means that we will be able to build a digital ledger for different assets and by unifying these ledgers build a new framework for commerce.

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February 22, 2023

Dis-Content

Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act grants online platforms immunity from prosecution for user generated content. This has defined how content moderation is carried out around the world. This week, the US Supreme court started hearing arguments in Gonzales v. Google. — a case that could

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February 15, 2023

Does AI Copy?

It's easy to overlook how much this AI will challenge the ways in which copyright law protects the rights of artists over their works. We are going to have to re-think a lot of what we have taken for granted.

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February 8, 2023

Existential Angst

Every time a new technology comes around it threatens the status quo. Incumbents protest against it worried about the effect that it will have on their profession and their livelihood. But most technological change creates new opportunities that require us to learn new skills. The current AI revolut

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January 26, 2023

Your Face is Your Boarding Pass

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January 18, 2023

Alt Big Tech

There are rumblings about the role that self-regulatory organisations play in India’s digital public ecosystems and the concerns that they may become the problem they are solving. But these new organisations offer much needed balance to the regulatory architecture of digital systems.

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January 4, 2023

Momentous Change

Are we going to see a transformation in search. And consequently all of tech as we know it?

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January 2, 2023

Ex Machina 2022: A Year in Review

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December 28, 2022

Looking Back

In my very first article of the year I predicted that 2022 would be a busy year for tech policy. I was basing my prediction on the progress that had b...

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