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<title>Trust RSS Feed</title><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/index.htm</link><description>Play It By Trust</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2007-12 Thom Poole. All rights reserved</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-11-04T09:14:02+00:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:05:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>FIFA and Trust</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Trust</category><dc:date>2010-11-04T09:14:02+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/8bbf5ee17a6e3938274a216e11b2a137-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/8bbf5ee17a6e3938274a216e11b2a137-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The FIFA President, Sepp Blatter has been one of the loudest voices in world football for many years, but has als been one of the dictators of the destruction of trust within football - though not alone.

...And is this good for football - already seen as a self-centred, greedy sport full of unsporting participants who dive, try to get opponents booked and sent off and many of whom earn obscene wages.

...If unethical and untrustworthy behaviour is the only way to get the World Cup, then I would push for FIFA to be disbanded and a new organisation to be set up in its place, with stricter regulation.

...This is not what I want to see, nothing binds the nation better than the World Cup, but if it is just about who can pay the most money, it is no longer sport, so why bother?

...Football must regain the trust of the billions of supporters worldwide, and as the ruling body, FIFA has a responsibility to make the organisation of football as clean and ethical as possible.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Trust needs leadership</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Trust</category><dc:date>2010-04-23T15:49:39+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/80d138c709b4ad83d436250e091078df-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/80d138c709b4ad83d436250e091078df-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[My favourite club, Chelsea, has been embroiled in some negative publicity for most of this last season - the Ashley Cole misdemeanours, the John Terry indiscretions.  Normally I would say that this was all none of my business, but let us take a look at what happened there.

...The leader the electorate trusts (or at least the one they mistrust least) will be the winner - unfortunately with the 'first-past-the-post' election model the UK has, this need not be the one with the most votes.

If the UK, or any other country for that matter, is to come out of this recession strongly, we need strong leadership.

...A lot of debate is centred around the possibility of a hung Parliament - there are many European examples of coalition governments performing very well (e.g. Switzerland), but also of very poor performance (e.g. Italy).]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The death of trust in the banking system</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Trust</category><dc:date>2008-11-04T17:46:36+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/d78e03c2f52f865eeefb0139db2564d2-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/d78e03c2f52f865eeefb0139db2564d2-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the not so dim and distant past, securing a line of credit or a loan from a financial institution meant an interview with your local Bank Manager.

...Not many days go by before I receive yet another cheap loan or credit card offer in the post, and shops are falling over themselves to offer me store cards at 25%+ interest rates every time I make a purchase.

...If this isn&rsquo;t short-lived then it will often drive the company into insolvency (like Lehman&rsquo;s) or seek security in the arms of a buyer (like Merrill Lynch to Bank of America).

...Interest rate cuts are not being passed on. It&rsquo;s a harsher regime, with a &lsquo;one-size-fits all&rsquo; and far less personal approach than the old Bank Manager interview.

...To get out of this downturn, we all need to take responsibility, we all need to become trustworthy, and we need to trade with people who can demonstrate that they are worthy of our trust and business.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Lost Credibility</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Trust</category><dc:date>2008-09-03T14:07:29+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/f33577ba6182328851a3efa3768f4a57-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/f33577ba6182328851a3efa3768f4a57-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The problem here is that employers no longer have any trust in the education system - the universities have also lost faith in the system as more of them rely on their own entrance exams.  New schoolkids, from this year onwards will now stay at school until they are 17 years old, but is the extra year going to be of any value, against the cost to the taxpayer.  Many schools appear only to coach children to pass the exams they are put forward for, without providing them with a thorough understanding of the subject matter, and unfortunately of a lack of the basic 3R's - Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.

The National Health Service (NHS) has also had billions of pounds ploughed into it by the Government, with enormous wastage, staff turnover and excessive clinical failures, such as the highest rates of superbugs in Western Europe rampant in the hospitals....  An Egyptian doctor at A&E was close to refusing me treatment because the injury was 'self inflicted', and told me that because I had walked for 6 days, I should then rest for 6 days.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Data losses &#x26; acquisition</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Ethics</category><dc:date>2008-04-23T11:49:18+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/9c4f9188dbaad268e91948c2594d9e70-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/9c4f9188dbaad268e91948c2594d9e70-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I do not condone the tax evasion, but Liechtenstein charges tax on all deposits, so account holders are paying taxes, albeit often lower than their home country, but two wrongs do not make a right, and the Inland Revenue are handling stolen data - obtained and resold criminally - so what makes it right for them to pursue the account holders?

The UK Government is not whiter-than-white in this matter, as offshore accounts in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man attract the same sort of people as deposited money in Liechtenstein (although they may have trusted Liechtenstein more due to their increased independence from other states).

...Many of the world's despots are also claimed to have money deposited in Liechtenstein bank accounts - the banking secrecy legislation protecting them from their national, and to some extent, international recovery.

...My real ethical bug-bear on this matter is that the UK Government supports the Inland Revenue in it's illegal purchase, use and pursuit of 'tax evaders' bought on the lists removed from the LGT Bank.

...Unfortunately, as their names are now known to the Inland Revenue, they will be pursued to uncover other 'proof' of tax evasion so that the Inland Revenue will not have to rely on the data disk.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Privacy rights &#x27;fragile&#x27; in 2007</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Business</category><dc:date>2008-01-04T09:56:29+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/1d652fa45d12970ecd93d4c3923547d3-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/1d652fa45d12970ecd93d4c3923547d3-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In an article on the BBC, global attitudes towards privacy were reported, following a study by the Privacy International and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

...Another BBC report cites the rise is fraudsters attacking the social networking sites - FaceBook, Bebo, etc. Is this going to be the end of Web 2.0?

...Biometrics are, probably the only reliable way to stem the flow of money to these fraudsters - except that even this is not working well.  If you have received the new biometric passports, you have foun dthat you are kept longer at the immigration que - the system takes longer to process the information.  But the 'Trust-Buster' is that the information on the passport can, apparently, be read through the envelope when the passport is sent to you, or when you send it off for visas.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Data Privacy fiasco</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Trust</category><dc:date>2007-11-23T08:28:22+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/2f7447af9a5c1cc453c31b2b8e2e05d2-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/2f7447af9a5c1cc453c31b2b8e2e05d2-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Unlike other areas of legal compliance, there is only to be a single company (www.privacy-audit.co.uk) that offers audits of a company's privacy procedures.

...Privacy Audit provides an objective and impartial approach to auditing your data security procedures, providing you with a snapshot of your data privacy operations, and your database marketing, as opposed the technical IT elements.  At the end of the process you will get a quality mark proving your compliance with the audit criteria, and therefore with the Data Protection legislation.

In this age where identity fraud is rife, and information easier than ever to compile, surely it is time for companies that value their customers to engage in ensuring adequate (or better still, more than adequate) data security procedures, and to be able to prove it to all stakeholders within the company?

...So what does your company look like in terms of data privacy - could you be the next HMIRCE, or can you prove to your customers that you take your relationship with them, and their privacy serious?]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Online ethics</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Ethics</category><dc:date>2007-11-01T08:28:35+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/cba0e2c9cb592df3264b85b4a71e9357-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/cba0e2c9cb592df3264b85b4a71e9357-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The web is supposed to be a blank sheet of paper, and you can write dark things on that paper as well as light.

...The same will happen for the Internet, and we should all be aware that the Internet of tomorrow will not look like today's web, there will be increased restrictions, more security checks, etc.

Some say that will kill the Internet off, but I am more optimistic about its future - after all we all want secure browsing, more accountable information and messaging services, and more relevance to our world.  I very much doubt that there are many users out there who are delighted to receive offers of Viagra, pornography sites and dubious finance deals - let alone the offers of huge wealth by providing your own bank details to help others, supposedly, embezzle money from third world countries.

If regulation provides us with a more ethical framework in which many of us work, study and play, then I am all for it.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Finally published</title><dc:creator>thom-removeme@playitbytrust.com</dc:creator><category>Publishing</category><dc:date>2007-11-01T08:15:07+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/e4a5dbcc71708a775c61709d5d914882-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.play-it-by-trust.com/blog/files/e4a5dbcc71708a775c61709d5d914882-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This is partly my fault for not pushing it too hard, as the long lead times do lull you into a false sense of security, but I have also been busy promoting the underlying principles of trust in e-business, and busy earning a crust from my consultancy and teaching.

...The reception I have received so far from professionals in the marketing and Internet world has inspired me to continue with my efforts, and when I have enough material (and time), I will write another book.

...One of the first presentations I made on the subject of trust was at Cranfield Management College, and the feedback I received there inspired me to write the book....  He then went on to thank me for putting the ethics and trust debate back into focus for the companies present at the conference.

The book is now on sale, and will be available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc in the next few weeks - and, of course, I would say that it would be an ideal book for Christmas!!]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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