[LINK] Google Dashboard

[Roger Clarke]

>Roger Clarke wrote:
>>  This seems important.  Has anyone checked it out?
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>>  Google Dashboard lifts curtain on stored data
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At 11:36 +1100 6/11/09, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Isn't this something of a two edged sword?
>
>Allowing external access to personal data opens up the possibility of
>un-authorised people getting access to data they shouldn't.

That's one of the many paradoxes of privacy, and it's been wrestled 
with for the last 40 years or so.

Subject access to personal data stored about them has been a 
fundamental since the very beginning.

But implementation is a challenge, because there's a need to perform 
some appropriate level of authentication before permitting access.

And of course this has been a great boon for the national security 
extremists, because they can claim that collecting biometrics is 
actually necessary, in order to protect privacy ...


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