All posts filed under: Privacy

Lessons from the road: raising awareness of data protection and privacy in open source projects

Privacy

In late November I was honoured to be asked to speak at the annual conference of the National Association of Data Protection Officers in London. My slides are available to view here. I was the only non-lawyer on the schedule, and also the only one with no employer or backing institution. For once, I did not mind being the edge case. The audience was full-time salaried data protection professionals, mostly based in central London, and […]

Should screen readers be detectable in analytics?

Accessibility / Privacy

Over at the PowerMapper blog I’ve explored both sides of a great debate: should screen readers be detectable in analytics? It’s an issue that pits accessibility against privacy, with legal complications thrown in for fun. While the technical difficulties of the question make it a pub discussion rather than reality, it’s still a question worth exploring. I want to thank everyone who supplied quotes and insight on the issue. They made this a fascinating piece […]