Bill Mew

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Founder and CEO of CrisisTeam.co.uk (SiliconANGLE global Startup of the Week – May 2019), an elite team of experts in incident response, cyber law, reputation management and social influence that help clients minimize the impact of cyber incidents. Previous cloud strategist at UKCloud (the UK’s leading govtech player) and on the global leadership of team for IBM Financial Services Sector (the world’s largest fintech player).
Profiled as the top global influencer for privacy and digital ethics, he helped lead the crowdfunding to launch None of Your Business (an NGO for pan-European privacy enforcement which brought the main cases against Facebook and others on day 1 of GDPR) and he appears almost weekly on TV/Radio (BBC, RT, etc.) as an expert on digital ethics, data privacy, social media regulation and digital transformation.
Was recently listed as one of the global top 100 cloud influencers (second highest in Europe – https://buff.ly/36XURyV), and is ranked in the global top 10 for smart cities, govtech and other digital transformation themes. Bill Mew is a cloud analyst that focuses on related technology use cases from facial recognition and govtech to smart cities and he is also a judge on the UK Cloud Awards.
CEO and founder Crisis Team
25th Oct 2023
HMRC annual report triggers cyber red alert
All organisations have a risk appetite. It is what defines their attitude to risk, the amount that they are willing to tolerate it and the...
HMRC & policy
18th Jul 2023
Is your tax information being shared with BigTech and others? Maybe!
In the United States, Senators have released a 54-page report [PDF] detailing what they describe as "outrageous, extensive, and potentially...
Tech pulse
14th Jun 2023
Rethinking regulation and taxation in the age of AI
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI). Much of the debate has centred on how AI might lead to the end of the world – or at...
Tech pulse
28th Feb 2023
Digital ID scheme will face many hurdles
Successive UK governments have championed the idea of “digital government”, with long-standing ambitions to use digital, data and...
People
3rd Jan 2023
2023 predictions: The great tech re-evaluation
Alan Cox once said: “I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.” Thankfully my...
Tech pulse
5th Oct 2022
The dangers of chaotic GDPR reform
The current government appears to be a great deal better at identifying costs than devising more effective alternatives or considering the...
Tech pulse
30th May 2022
Four years on: What have we learned from GDPR?
Regulation without enforcement is not just pointless, it’s counterproductive Several studies have found that many companies are not...
Tech pulse
28th Apr 2022
Twitter: Has Elon gone too far this time?
Imagine we are fund managers and have just agreed to back the acquisition of Twitter. We aren’t necessarily investing in Twitter. Many...
Tech pulse
27th Apr 2022
Verify identity fairy tale falls flat as HMRC shuts out users
Are you sitting comfortably? In this version of the story, the Three Little Identity Pigs each built a house to keep out the fraudulent...
Tech pulse
23rd Mar 2022
Sanctions: Compliance, evasion and enforcement
Supply chain rigour In any kind of trade, goods and services move in one direction, funds flow in the opposite direction and data flows...
Tech pulse