[LINK] interoperability efforts [was: Broadband for a Broad Land

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:07 AM 11/01/2011, ARTHUR,Evan (Dr) wrote:

>Linkers may be interested in the work being done in this area by 
>http://www.sifinfo.org/au/
>
>The Australian Government is funding this activity.

Interestingly, given the recent exposure of the banks on-selling 
credit information (if you haven't found this one yet, hold onto your 
hats!), I did a search on the word 'privacy' on that website. Only 
two references were returned.

The first was to Chancery systems that talks about role based access to data.
The second is to Envoy, which says it has a similar control mechanism.

The reason I did this search was to see if there was ANY inkling in 
SIF that there are reasons for data stove-pipes, that 
interoperability is not a magic pill without a downside, and that 
people who build these capabilities should think outside their own 
part of the universe to build in PETs: privacy enhancing 
technologies. This group seemingly has not, if the results of this 
search is anything to go by.

Evan, if you have any contacts in this group, perhaps you can raise 
this oversight and get privacy protections of students, teachers, and 
parents on the table.

Jan




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