https://robincarswell.com/categories/public-interest/Recent content in Public Interest on Robin CarswellHugo -- gohugo.ioen-gbMon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/i-gave-an-ai-my-whole-life-for-efficiency/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/i-gave-an-ai-my-whole-life-for-efficiency/To make the assistant useful I handed a commercial model, in another country, the most complete picture of me that has ever existed. Then I noticed I'd built a vault to keep my clients' data away from exactly that.https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-machine-that-forgot/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:30:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-machine-that-forgot/To write this series I went to check what actually happened when. My own records had quietly lied to me, and nobody had touched them in bad faith.https://robincarswell.com/posts/a-duty-to-remember-a-right-to-forget/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:45:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/a-duty-to-remember-a-right-to-forget/A government is obliged never to forget, but chooses carefully what to make public. AI breaks that balance, and the human right to forget is the casualty.https://robincarswell.com/posts/how-to-un-fixate-an-algorithm/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:53:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/how-to-un-fixate-an-algorithm/I accidentally bought sugar-free Heinz beans. Amazon has not forgotten.https://robincarswell.com/posts/obr-that-website-problem/Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/obr-that-website-problem/The risk was accepted thirteen years ago. A different person took the hit.https://robincarswell.com/posts/ex-twitter/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:29:56 +0000https://robincarswell.com/posts/ex-twitter/A half-day-only project on preserving my twitter presence without using Twitterhttps://robincarswell.com/posts/linkedin-is-it-impersonating-you/Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:09:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/linkedin-is-it-impersonating-you/Not yet, but not not-everhttps://robincarswell.com/posts/linkedin-reset/Mon, 19 Aug 2024 13:52:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/linkedin-reset/<p>My LinkedIn account was hacked this morning.</p> <p>To my small reader base: If we&rsquo;re supposed to get coffee the week of the 19th, let&rsquo;s arrange where, by email.</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-business-of-tech/Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/the-business-of-tech/<p>To replace a really old Denon that finally gave up the ghost, a few years ago I bought myself a Yamaha VX-R675. It&rsquo;s great &ndash; I can tune into the radio, listening to that great legacy media without dealing with retargeted ads that keep pummelling me with the same ad for something I already own. #surveillancecapitalism</p>https://robincarswell.com/posts/govuk-wins-design-of-the-year/Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0100https://robincarswell.com/posts/govuk-wins-design-of-the-year/<p>For the past several months, I&rsquo;ve been working on building out <a href="https://gov.uk">gov.uk</a>. More precisely, the Inside Government team, working up new product development and content transition.</p>