Category: Ethics

  • Controlling leaks Apple style

    There’s been quite a lot of buzz during the past week or so surrounding rumours that Apple will be launching a tablet device very soon, and the expectation that there’ll be an announcement by Apple on January 26. I wrote…

  • Ghost blogging: Just don’t do it

    A topic that’s guaranteed to provoke some passionate opinion is that of ghost blogging: whether it’s right or wrong and whether you should do it or not in a business context in particular. I have written about it before, most…

  • Advertorial sharp practice

    If you ever get a phone call from a company called PSCA International asking you to contribute an article for one of their magazines (which they call books), don’t get suckered into agreeing to do something and then finding out…

  • Numbered days for Phorm

    The plans of behavioural targeting firm Phorm for spying on what people do online look to have taken a terminal hit as The Guardian reports. The announcement today of BT’s pull-out suggests it could be hard for Phorm to continue…

  • Is there any surprise trust is so low?

    You could see the headline on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph on the newsstand from 50 feet away: The ministers and the money. Whatever your political stance, it must surely be apparent to anyone that something in Westminster…