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Privacy for Business; Web Sites and Email: Web Sites and Email

Privacy for Business; Web Sites and Email: Web Sites and Email

A primer on data privacy and protection for businesses.

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Do Online Access Imperatives Violate Duty of Care?

This article presents four assertions: (1) going online exposes us to a lot of crime, (2) high crime environments are unhealthy, (3)…

18 min readNov 20, 2023

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Image of people on a crowded train being exposed to potential criminal activity by going online. Crime Online © 2023 by Stephen Cobb, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Created by Stephen Cobb using a photo shared by Hugh Han @unsplash.

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The Existential AI Risk Nobody Is Talking About

Artificial Intelligence is made from code running on chips powered by electricity that process data across connections; and all five…

3 min readMar 31, 2023

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Diagram showing that Artificial Intelligence is an information system composed of chips, code, data, connections, and electricity

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AI problem awareness grew in 2020, but 46% still “not aware at all” of problems with artificial…

The general public’s awareness of problems with AI grew in 2020, yet 46% of US adults are still not aware of those problems. At least…

6 min readJan 25, 2021

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AI problem awareness grew in 2020, but 46% still “not aware at all” of problems with artificial…

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Not even 10% of us trust tech firms to protect our personal information

20 May 2020 — A recent Google survey suggests less than one in 10 adults in the US and UK trust tech firms to protect their personal…

9 min readMay 20, 2020

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Charts shows under 10% of respondents said “yes” when asked if they trust tech firms to protect their personal information

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Cannabis medicine UK: an update for 2023, with caveats

Cannabis has been legally available on prescription in the UK since 2018 but—and you might find this quite shocking—the vast majority of…

4 min readJan 14, 2023

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Image of cannabis plant and UK flag (created with Photoleap AI app, so they may own this; use of the app is not an endorsement; use at your discretion).

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Getting prescription cannabis meds in the UK legally: a beginner’s guide

Cannabis-based medicines are now legal in the UK and this article explains how to obtain them to improve your health and quality of life.

11 min readAug 7, 2021

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Getting prescription cannabis meds in the UK legally: a beginner’s guide

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Prescription cannabis and quality of life: a case study from the UK

Within four days of receiving her prescribed cannabis-based medicine, a women in her late sixties reported feeling “like a different…

7 min readJul 26, 2021

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Prescription cannabis and quality of life: a case study from the UK

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Risk perception and digital security

The cultural theory of risk perception meets digital technology: exploring the white male effect in the context of cybersecurity.

4 min readDec 9, 2018

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Risk perception and digital security

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Tillerson on cyber, hacking, and deterrence: right? wrong? both?

Recently, when he was asked about Russian interference in America’s elections, the Secretary of State of the United States said: “if it’s…

5 min readFeb 12, 2018

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Tillerson on cyber, hacking, and deterrence: right? wrong? both?

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US-Russia cybersecurity talks: right script, wrong actors?

Should the US and Russia hold talks on cybersecurity? In July of 2017, a lot of Americans shouted “No!” when US Secretary of State Rex…

7 min readJul 9, 2017

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US-Russia cybersecurity talks: right script, wrong actors?

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Stephen Cobb

Stephen Cobb

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Independent researcher into risk, tech, gender, ethics, healthcare, and public policy. A life spent learning, writing, and teaching. Now based in Coventry, UK.

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