We are in an interesting period of leadership change. In Australia, we elected a new federal government at the end of 2007. The UK has a new PM & the USA will have a new president by the end of 2008.
Is the privacy debate changing too, reflecting a new mood?
The year 2007 sensitised us to the challenges through massive losses & theft of personal information worldwide and debates over search engine & social networking approaches to the use of personal information.
The end of 2007 & start of 2008 appears to have taken off from this start point, based on the evidence from a totally unrepresentative sample of 3 recent news stories ...
This all feels a lot more like the debate as it stood before 11 September 2001 and the new Federal government is obviously contemplating change. Indeed, it amounts to more than a couple of swallows, but it is far too early to see if a new Spring is around the corner where there is a fair allocation of control, risk and accountability in the handling of personal information about us all.
2008 is going to be an interesting year.