All
I am starting to feel a little uncomfortable about all these new
approaches to supplying services and collection of data.
We have the trial of drivers using this new insurance charging scheme
based upon journeys. I feel uncomfortable that I could be 'potentially'
challenged on why I decided one day to make a long trip across the
country, like many we enjoy the freedom to do so periodically!!
Combine this with the vision of charging road tax along a similar lines
using GPRS in future. So there is a logfile available to departments of
all journeys made.
Then on top this we might have national ID cards.
Then as Roland says mobiles can track people to certain extent.
It would be frightening to combine all these data collections (of
course DPA should combat/restrict this) but computing power is always on
the increase according to Moore's law so it will get easier to do so if
needed or is lawful to do so.
Is this the norm to be building all these profiles in other countries?
All I hear about now is the creation of new 'data' stores for various
purposes, either commercial or otherwise.
Regards
Mark
>>> Roland Perry <[log in to unmask]> 19/08/04 13:45:56
>>>
In message
<[log in to unmask]>,
at 11:10:57 on Thu, 19 Aug 2004, "Yuill, Allan"
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I didn't perceive details of my car journeys as having any value at
all
>until this scheme was proposed. They only generate value when they
are
>used by the insurance company and passed on in an
anonymised/summarised
>form to third parties as they've stated. If they do anything else it
>will be commercial suicide. It is not really a privacy issue to me at
>the moment.
It is entirely plausible that the information could be sold to third
parties (if not under the current T&C, then an amended one) such that
they'd contact you with "important marketing offers" regarding places
on
your regular route. For example "Just 500 yds off your normal route
the
Tescsafebury Supermarket has a special offer on xyz".
>A straw poll round the office suggested most people do not have any
>privacy concerns about this.
Perhaps some more imagination is required.
>Discussing it, the example you give above
>was raised unprompted as an issue. Perhaps one in five were nervous
>about the increased amount of information stored about their
activities
>and the telephone analogy was raised again. Interestingly, Pay as You
Go
>in the mobile phone world is at the opposite end of the privacy
spectrum
>as no personal information is required or stored.
PAYG are not as anonymous as people think. Not only can you follow the
money when they are registered or topped up, simply looking at the
calling patterns can narrow the field considerably.
--
Roland Perry
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