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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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candice

There is a movement floating around involving Librarians and shredding records in the U.S. for about the same reasons, post Patriot Act.

I probably have a few articles tagged somewhere about it, or my librarian friends do.

Alex Tolley

"So we'll keep doing it until there are catastrophic events that are personal, institutional, national, or just plain human, that'll give us reason to pause and possibly re-consider the trade-offs."

We have already had these catastrophes in medical insurance, but since all the benefits go to the companies, nothing has been re-evaluated of changed. Europe has extremely opposed views to information privacy compared to the US which are enshrined in various privacy laws.

It is arguable that we already have an unfolding catastrophe with identity fraud in the US, as databases of personal data are left poorly secured and data is traded so frequently between companies that access is just inevitable. Again, what is being done to combat this epidemic?

Cory is making the point that we may be paving our own road to hell even as we gain benefits from sharing our data with service suppliers, simply because we don't know how that data may be used in the future.

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