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Originally Posted by ahardie
If you had bothered to read the thread you would have seen that the privacy aspects of this are regularly audited by Ernst and Young anyway. So your statement is just scaremongering .
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Have you actually read the Ernst & Young so called "
approval"? It's a complete red herring and not worth the electrons needed to download it.
Firstly they audit against USA accountancy standards. We are talking about a system the needs to meet the UK standards. There is no specific audit against the Data Protection Act, or other privacy rules.
Secondly the disclaimers used, make the "certification" worthless:
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Originally Posted by Ernst & Young Phorm Audit
Because of inherent limitations in controls, error or fraud may occur and not be detected
Furthermore, the projection of any conclusions, based on our findings, to future periods is subject to the risk that the validity of such conclusions may be altered because of changes made to the Service or controls, the failure to make needed changes to the Service or controls, or a deterioration in the deree of effectiveness of the controls
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The bold is my highlight of a statement that basically implies they've vetted it, but don't really know.