Topic Archives: Business, industry and consumers

More invasion of our privacy

Lord Haskel 20/02/2012 – 10:22 am

The Facebook prospectus told us how the company is using and profiting from our personal data. I have just learned that here in America the address book on your smartphone is routinely collected by app developers when you download their app. According to a well researched article in Thursday’s New York Times (16 February 2012) this is considered to be “Industry best practice.” Apple’s p […]

Written at 10:22 am on 20/02/2012, by Lord Haskel

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The Facebook Prospectus

Lord Haskel 09/02/2012 – 11:43 am

Looking through the 186 pages of the Facebook prospectus provides an insight into the internet today.  Gone are the days when surfing the net was instructive, pleasurable and yes fun.  We believed in internet neutrality. When surfing today we have to bear in mind that what we look at and what we do on the internet  is being interpreted, packaged and sold.  And this includes the content and des […]

Written at 11:43 am on 09/02/2012, by Lord Haskel

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Banking it

Baroness Deech 27/01/2012 – 5:18 pm

The solution to the dilemma of the banker's bonus is obvious.  Mr. Hester should take it, and give it to charity.  That way the contract he seems to have had with RBS is fulfilled; honour is preserved; and the money goes back to the people for good purposes. The chair of RBS and of the remuneration committee is Sir Philip Hampton. A Sir Philip Hampton was the author of the Hampton Report on G […]

Written at 5:18 pm on 27/01/2012, by Baroness Deech

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Shopping at Christmas

Baroness Deech 18/12/2011 – 4:46 pm

Mary Portas, shopping guru, has delivered to the Prime Minister a review of the state of our high streets and town centres.  I was able to get a copy from the Printed Paper Office of the Lords.  I noticed this weekend that there are considerably fewer people out shopping on my own local high street than there were a year ago, due no doubt to the recession, internet shopping and the discount "vil […]

Written at 4:46 pm on 18/12/2011, by Baroness Deech

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Value in Business

Lord Haskel 18/11/2011 – 11:57 am

  In these difficult times we are hearing a lot about the importance of getting value for money and the need for business to create value.  We hear it from bankers, from Chancellors of the Exchequer, Prime Ministers and business people.   But also in these difficult times we are hearing a lot more about ethical and moral values in business.  How unbridled capitalism no longer seems credi […]

Written at 11:57 am on 18/11/2011, by Lord Haskel

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