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Peter Cruickshank
Teaching & researching information systems management
Lecturer and sometime Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University. I teach topics around e-commerce, information and social media strategy, knowledge management and security & governance of information systems. My interests include governance of information systems, risk management, identity and privacy, citizen engagement, and open source for egovernment.
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Found along the way- The TREsPASS Project
- Producing Open Source Software
- Social Tools in the Workplace: a Microsoft survey « Learning in the Social Workplace
- 12 Papers on Social Media and Political Participation | DemocracySpot
- IS Theory
- Wiki VOIS Database - The SROI Network
- Mining the Social Web - Github code examples
- Hiding in Plain Sight: A New APT Campaign | Security Intelligence Blog | Trend Micro
- Certificate in Information Security Management Principles | Certificate in Information Security Management Principles | Foundation | IT Governance and Information Security | Certifications | BCS Certifications
- How do we escape the hysteria that threatens to erode public debate? | Peter Beaumont | Comment is free | The Observer
Category Archives: USA
Who controls your data clouds? (aka beware the PATRIOT Act)
A random incoming link on my WordPress dashboard from Nourishing Obscurity reminded me about something I’d written over a year ago here in response to a piece of techno-optimism by Simon Dickson in his old blog and some Web2.0 caution … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Privacy, Security, UK, USA
Tagged data protection, Europe, Privacy, sovereignty, USA
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Academic research into use of blogs and social networking
The latest issue of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication – http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/ – has a couple of articles which might be useful background when considering the factors behind online engagement – albeit based on USA data: Every Blog Has Its … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Links, e-participation, paper, research, USA
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Protect your personal data: Don’t host it in the US
Here’s a couple of related stories culled straight from the SANS newsletter. The SWIFT banking network has had to move its servers out of USA jurisdiction in order to protect its data from the US government; the second story explains … Continue reading
Data Protection law and US-hosted forums
At work, we’ve been talking about an issue which is I suppose the converse of an issue I’ve touched on before in the context of freedom of expression vs national sovereignty. This time, we’ve been looking at the legal (and … Continue reading
