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Taxes, the Earl of Mercia, AI, and the Dawn of Privacy
1026 CE. Give or take a decade. Leofric, Earl of Mercia, was taxing his people at a brutal rate. Even his wife’s continued demands for their relief fell on deaf ears. So when Leofric finally agreed to lift the taxes, but only if she rode naked through the marketplace at nearby Coventry, Lady Godgifu (anglicized… — read more
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Bletchley Park, Data Sharing, and the Future of Computing
It’s an old, sad, zero-sum story: sharing data across organizations to inform plans and policies is a fundamental business need, but sharing is also an immovable corporate liability. To understand the zero-sum game and why it lives on like something out of a grade-B zombie flick, let’s consider a historical problem that looks like its… — read more