"The average economically active individual in the developed world is on
about 700 databases", a recent BBC report about the spreading and loosing of
personal data in Britain quotes Niamh Gallagher (besides Kirstie Ball for
SSN):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7107975.stm
Gallagher is researcher at Demos, a "think tank for everyday democracy", and
is working on a project called "For your information"
(http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/foryourinformation/overview) whose results
will be published on December 7.
Interesting! Representative for the "developed world"? A German data
protection commissioner once told me that would like to map these databases,
their owners and users in order to visualize the multiple lifes of our data
shadows. However, at that time he was missing the resources.
Are other projects/results known from this field ?
Any hint is appreciated.
Best wishes,
Eric
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