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at 11:10:57 on Thu, 19 Aug 2004, "Yuill, Allan"
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>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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