Hi, I’m Richard King and this is my blog, which I write to raise awareness of digital rights issues in the UK.
I’ve been helping people to understand and exploit advances in technology since before the turn of the century. When the World Wide Web went mainstream, I was studying electronics at Sheffield university, where I also helped to run its computing society. Or was it the other way round? Anyway, I’ve watched the Internet evolve from academic curiosity, through geek toy, beyond commercial medium and into part of the Critical Infrastructure of nations.
In 2006 I became involved in the Open Rights Group, where I now volunteer as a sub-editor, newsblogger and wiki maintainer. I started this blog around the same time partly as a learning exercise and partly to express my thinking on privacy, security and politics, fuelled as it was (and still is) by the cogent and learned debate found on the ORG-discuss mailing list. Richard’s Kingdom has since evolved into a forum to help preserve and enhance the kinds of freedoms those Internet pioneers took for granted, and to fight for the interests of society in the digital era.
In real life I’m a Senior Engineer specialising in the design and integration of complex high-technology systems.
You can contact me via my contacts page, and you can keep up with happenings on Richards Kingdom by subscribing to my RSS feed.
Thanks for reading!
–Richard.
