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Originally Posted by Chris T
Whatever the past misdeeds of Phorm and whatever their current merit (and I'm not convinced of that, by the way, I'm just being charitable), the fact is, privacy and freedom are two of the most jealously cherished attributes of the internet. Any suggestion of tracking usage, and worse, actually *using* the data thus collected, no matter what 'safeguards' are put in place, was always bound to lead to 'hysteria' as you call it. They should have seen it coming. Actually, they probably did, hence their signing up a megabucks PR agency to spin it for them.
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Agree with the first part but I have seen nothing that remotely suggests tracking and using data in the way you imply other than the way it is intended. apologies if I misunderstand you.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
I feel bound to point out, that any system which relies on human compliance for its security is flawed by design. The very fact that Ernst and Young *need* to check to ensure it's not being abused, demonstrates that is capable of being abused. And as surely as one person's stupidity can lead to 25 million child benefit records going astray, sooner or later that abuse, whether by accident or with malice, will occur.
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I saw no reference to human intervention in the system and I am not sure about your ref to E&Y. Anyone can make a claim about something. Unless it is checked how do you know it is true? (They said the Titanic was unsinkable. unfortunately nobody checked before it sailed). We have had almost weekly real personal data loss from various govt depts which are many times worse. Yet any outcry dies down after a few days despite the risk being actual as opposed to vaguely remotely possible if at all with this
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Originally Posted by Chris T
Never underestimate the willingness of large corporations to resort to nefarious tactics when they think their bottom line is at stake. Sony and rootkits comes to mind - and were it not for the vigilance of one extremely accomplished blogger, we would still be completely oblivious to that.
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Yes I agree with that but that will take human intervention and you can never eliminate risk entirely. Chip & Pin was supposed to reduce if not eliminate card fraud yet it has increased.