Karl A L Smith

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Month: September 2026

Twenty Years Later: Publishing My 2006 MSc Dissertation

In 2006, I submitted an MSc dissertation based on a research programme that I had independently funded through my own company. In 2026, twenty years later, I have decided to publish that dissertation in its original form. It has not…

How Context Collapse Changed My Thinking About All Me

When I started designing All Me in 2023, I believed the primary problem I was trying to solve was privacy. At the time, my focus was on creating a safer digital environment for people. The concerns were familiar ones: surveillance-based…

From Umbrellas to PSCs Navigating the UK’s New Contractor Risk Landscape

The UK contingent labour market is undergoing its most significant transformation in two decades. Two legislative changes the Employment Rights Act reforms and the new Joint & Several Liability rules under Chapter 11 ITEPA 2003 are reshaping how businesses engage…

All me and the Emergence of the ICCA Framework

The engineering work undertaken for All me has produced a set of architectural solutions that extend far beyond the requirements of a single application. During the development process, it became clear that the mechanisms required to deliver user independent identity,…