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 technology since before the turn of the century. When the World Wide Web went mainstream I was studying electronics at Sheffield university, as well as helping 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 have volunteered variously as an evangelist, copy-writer, 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 issues of privacy, security and politics. Richard’s Kingdom now campaigns for the preservation and enhancement of the freedoms those Internet pioneers took for granted, and to fight for the interests of society in the digital era.
In real life I have been a senior engineer specialising in the design and integration of complex, high-technology systems; I have worked as a software consultant in the UK higher-education sector; and I’m now gainfully employed as an analyst designing student management systems for Further Education Institutions at home and abroad. There’s more about my professional life on LinkedIn.
You can contact me via my contacts page and you can keep up with Richard’s Kingdom by subscribing to free updates by RSS or email.
Thanks for reading!
–Richard