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November 2007 - Posts

• Prehistoric bureacracy drags £300m of taxpayer cash into the tarpit

  Last week's failure of the HMRC to undertake basic steps to protect the data of some 25m-odd British citizens is a classic case of how IT by itself is of no value at all. All the retinal scanning in the world is of no use if it's not actually Read More... Posted 26 November 2007 10:39 by Julian.RHarris | 0 Comments Filed under: security

• Education in Financial Services: I don't want life insurance! (But I realize I do need it.)

  The dangerous mix Why do we need the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles? Many financial services products are a dangerous mix of elements: they’re generally uninteresting, complex to understand, and yet carry dire consequences if not used Read More... Posted 19 November 2007 19:00 by Julian.RHarris | 0 Comments Filed under: social computing, compliance, conchango20112007, tcf