Thursday, May 08, 2008
Personally Identifiable Information - My Digital DNA is Not for Sale!: "The series of questions started. What is your phone number for the AT&T account you have? Are you still located at such and such a street in Podunk, New England? If there are any changes, we need to have them. I'll need your driver’s license please? Why? I need to get the number so I can enter it into the system! (The system is a terminal that rises from the depths of the Wally World floor peering above the desktop like the alien crafts in War of the Worlds."
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csoonline
EUR-Lex - 31995L0046 - EN: "(46) Whereas the protection of the rights and freedoms of data subjects with regard to the processing of personal data requires that appropriate technical and organizational measures be taken, both at the time of the design of the processing system and at the time of the processing itself, particularly in order to maintain security and thereby to prevent any unauthorized processing; whereas it is incumbent on the Member States to ensure that controllers comply with these measures; whereas these measures must ensure an appropriate level of security, taking into account the state of the art and the costs of their implementation in relation to the risks inherent in the processing and the nature of the data to be protected;"
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eur-lex.europa
European Convention on Human Rights and its Five Protocols: "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence."
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hri