Thanks for the info.

- Gerg

Encryption alone will not secure data, warns expert after code cracks
http://www.out-law.com/page-10659

Information security.
sami

Thanks. Good luck with it.

- Greg

I understand you that the bigger problem is with secure transactions.

In my http://www.card4net.com you can see my prototype, my solution is based in
your believe.

sami

Thanks. Best of luck in the new year to you as well.

- Greg

Sami

Thanks for the information. Information security is a confusing topic, especially for non specialists and encryption is only one part of it.

- Greg

Personal Data obtained by a Data Controller within the EU can be processed in any EU or EEA country and in countries which have “adequate” Data Protection legislation, or where an approved “Safe Harbour” arrangement is in place, or by a Data Processor anywhere under the terms of the Model Contract.

Peter’s point about the telephone directory is noted, but ever-increasingly the issue is that of “other information in the possession of”. The telephone book is not Google. It reveals only limited information based upon indexing by subscriber name. It is not practical to “reverse search” such indexed material (as a printed book containing hundreds of thousands of entries) for a subscriber’s name by their address or telephone number.

For interest, an interesting Gallop survey of attitudes towards data protection legislation (January 2008) in EU countries is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_226_sum_en.pdf

I understand where you’re coming from, but think that the bigger problem is with secure transactions.

- Greg

Some of this is overblown, however. Sort of: Lists of names, telephone numbers and addresses of everyone in the neighbourhood left on a doorstep – shock. Oh – it’s the phone book.

People like to think their data is private but very little is either private or unique. Customer names of the big stores, for example, could probably be guessed from a demographic of the local area. We love to publish lots of data on web sites which are regularly trawled and copyrighted material “repurposed”.

What is actually unique is the data and methodology in people’s heads – something we call skill and experience.

So what does this mean for the marketer?
We must move away from data driven systems which neglect human input and educate, train and trust people more.
We must leverage things which stop people copying our business model such as barriers to entry.
We must work like spies or terrorists with data kept in cells, rather than centralised where a breach could give someone everything.

Last but not least is that data tells where someone has been, not where they’re going. Copying is never the way to success – innovation is.