Posts tagged as "communications"

If You Live In The UK, You Need To Know About The Communications Data Bill

On Thursday June 14th. 2012, Theresa May, the UK Secretary Of State published the draft Communications Data Bill. If you've been reading or watching the UK media you might well be aware of this. The bill is hugely controversial, not least because it requires all UK internet service providers to track and store for 12 months the details of every email sent within the UK, every website visited from within the UK and every use of a mobile phone within the UK. This is a huge undertaking and will gather an equally huge amount of data. It's also a costly undertaking, one that is ill conceived and impractical, one that is a massive invasion of our personal privacy and right to communicate with each other and one that is fundamentally undemocratic.

It's costly because the estimated price tag is £1.8bn over 10 years, a price tag that the country cannot afford given the current economic climate and the austerity measures which are being applied across all aspects of the United Kingdom. The estimated price tag is also just that, an estimate and the UK Home Office has already stated that the final figure is likely to be much higher.

The Corporate Communications Index

If you work for a company with more than one member of staff, you'll be familiar with corporate pronouncements. Sometimes these are easy to digest, they're masterpieces of language; you know exactly what they're saying and more importantly what impact the pronouncement has on you and on your job. But sometime you read them and realise though you've read words and sentences you really have no idea what is supposed to be imparted by the words you've just read. With this in mind, I offer up the Corporate Communications Index. A simple, easy to read and digest table, which allows you to easily determine whether your job is safe or whether now would be a really really good time to polish your resume a little bit.

The Corporate Communications Index

I can't take the credit for this work though; this piece of ever so slightly twisted genius is down to Jenny Allen who doesn't blog much, if at all. Consider me merely the messenger here, if you will.