Eleven privacy impacts of working with location data

By Sam Leach The fourth edition in our new series, exploring tracking in the digital world considers how the storage, processing and publication of location data can have significant privacy impacts on individuals and groups. Just witness the many high profile cases...

The nationalisation of tracking

In recent months, the UK government has started to nationalise tracking in an attempt to positively impact society. What does the nationalisation of tracking actually mean? If tracking is nationalised, it is owned or led by the government or state. For example, NHS...

Ten data processing principles for safety systems

In this post we look at a set of ten data processing principles that we use when designing and building our safety systems. We think that when they are applied, they can help to avoid some very common pitfalls that arise when working on technology for workplace...

Introducing Smart24 Collision Response

*This introduction to Smart24 Collision Response is the first of series of posts: we’ll have a lot more to say about this soon. We’re excited to announce the addition of our new Collision Response feature to our Smart24 personal safety app. This is a new way of...

The Future of Emergency Location Sharing

When issuing any safety technology to your staff, the kind of environment that your team works in is one of the first questions to ask. Are your staff predominantly ‘safe by default’ in a low-risk environment, or ‘in danger by default’ by working in a high-risk...