Securing Your Own Data On Line
The New York Times article Securing Very Important Data: Your Own raises a number of interesting points about attitudes and privacy. It starts with how we are ready to trade personal information for convenience:
But the newest generation of these services is starting to collect and store far more than just the standard suite of identity data — name and address, phone, Social Security or credit-card numbers — that populates the databases of banks and credit-card processors. They increasingly store information, generated by us, that is directly linked to those virtual identities.
One of the most telling lines in the article is:
Yet none of the users flocking to these services seem perturbed that they have relinquished personal control over this data to companies that, even with the best of intentions, may not be able to keep it safe.
Part of the solution may lie in projects like CloudTripper and the Identity Governance Framework, both mentioned in the article.
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