“62% of the participants had been notified by an organization holding their private data that some of their information had been breached. In addition, 84% of that group felt “anxiety” over the data loss”
I picked up Computerworld’s review of the Ponemon Institute study into personal web security: while the numbers are written for headlines, the numbers are significant - once your personal data is in the wild, it’s probably there for all time. Fortunately data degrades quite quickly.
While governments can legislate business to keep data secure, processes are only as strong as their weakest link. Exhibit A: the IT retailer ’s account manager who emailed their account holders, cc’ing everybody on the list!
Individuals will have to take responsibility for their own data security: we need a personal “freedom of information” act, to give citizens right of access at no charge to check & correct data held in public & commercial sources. The conundrum is of course that data access should be secure, or there’s no point, and I’m not sure that’s practical, yet. Maybe if I had a biometric ID card that proved I am who I say I am…
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