Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Data centers coming to a town near you

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  You may think of your personal data as a digital asset, but it does have a physical home.  It exists in a data center (or multiple data ce...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Taking the Humans out of Human Resources

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We all know the trend:  AI is replacing human workers.  We all know that trend is accelerating.  One of the industries where AI is replacing...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Worried about AI? Don’t worry, it will cure cancer

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You have surely read the dire predictions of the leaders of the field of AI:  everyone from the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropics, Bill Gates, e...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

The Age of Discovery, seen from Seville

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I enjoyed a week in enchanting, intriguing Seville.  The photo is the tomb of Christopher Columbus in the Seville Cathedral. In the Age of ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The world’s largest surveillance system…hiding in plain sight

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  The world’s largest surveillance system is watching you.  It’s capturing (almost) everything you do on the web on (almost) every website. ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Irish Backdoor

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It’s not a gay bar in Dublin, the Irish Backdoor, sorry if that’s why you clicked on this blog.  It’s how non-EU companies, like tech compan...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Why does every US and Chinese company want to go to Ireland?

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Ireland is one of the biggest winners of the EU 27 construct.  It has established itself as a tax and regulatory haven for foreign (non-EU) ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Hi Privacy Pro's: where's your mojo?

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I’ve been committed to the field of privacy for 3 decades, and I’ve had the pleasure to mentor multiple generations of smart and committed p...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

It’s all about (sharing) the data, stupid: privacy meets antitrust

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I spent time with a group of privacy experts recently.  We were discussing the intersection of privacy and antitrust law.  Traditionally, th...