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Being Overly Cautious About Privacy Becomes Counter Intuitive

A question from the lecture 'Are you the Customer or...

Have There Been Cycles of Popularity For Jane Austen?

A question from the lecture 'Jane Austen, Persuasion: Irony and...

Fairytale endings and complex irony - How do these reconcile with each other?

A question from the lecture 'Jane Austen, Persuasion: Irony and...

Jane Austen, 'Persuasion': Irony and the Mysterious Vagaries of Narrative

Narrative, the way a tale is told, is less straightforward than we might suppose. Austen handled irony brilliantly and systematically exploited new ways of narrating, including free indirect discourse. This lecture explores why Austen's way of narrating are so compelling.

Big Data: The Broken Promise of Anonymisation

It is often claimed that your personal data is safe because it has been anonymised, but computer scientists know how easy it is to re-identify the individual by matching the data against other public datasets. Anonymised detailed personal data is a contradiction - a broken promise....

Data lives forever, but we don’t

What happens to your personal data after you die? Professor...

Anonymisation and Differential Privacy

Professor Martyn Thomas CBE explains the concept of differential privacy...

Failed Anonymisation: Medical Records in Massachusetts

Are anonymised medical records really anonymous? Professor Martyn Thomas CBE...

Failed Anonymisation: Netflix

Failed Anonymisation: AOL

Is searching online safe? Professor Martyn Thomas CBE illustrates how...