“Models, Privacy & Ownership” summary of my BEUC Privacy presentation

So finally after much work the beast that is my BEUC Forum of Privacy 2009  is complete (and busy sending right now).  It is a 173 slide monster but provisional timings stick that at around 14minutes.

As a teaser here’s the summary I’ve posted to the BEUC:

“Models, Privacy & Ownership”

When given people trust businesses those businesses perform better. But for people to truly trust businesses and organisations they must have confidence in their privacy being safe-guarded.

Barney Craggs examines the effect emerging payment mechanisms has had on the volume of personal information being traded and highlights how by abandoning old set notions of ownership any organisation can foster trust and thrive which ever business model they pursue.

Finding my way through the day

One of my most insurmountable challenges these days is in deciding what is and isn’t important on a daily basis. The volume of stuff is so great that prioritisation, and more importantly filtering are starting to come into play.

As an example today I must have had over 30 emails from websites from which I have bought something, commented upon or in some way been foolish enough to have left my contact details with. Now 30 might not sound like a huge number but in my already attention stretched world of social networks and real life conversations, having to wade through those 30 to find the 3 or 4 genuinely interesting emails was a pain.

Now that’s not to say they were spam – Google Mail generally takes care of the 300+ a day obvious spam, indeed at the right time, in the right place the majority of those 30 would have contained something of interest, right down to the third Amazon email this week promoting a product I have just bought from Amazon right back at me!

So what is the answer?

I honestly don’t know. I could grab ANOTHER email address for even more personal emails (got several already) or….. oh sod it. In the time it’s taken me to whine and complain about my lack of time I could easily have browsed those 30 emails. Duh.