Comments on: Limiting the risks of government data sharing http://www.owen.org/blog/640 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ruth Kennedy http://www.owen.org/blog/640/comment-page-1#comment-2419 Ruth Kennedy Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:18:51 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/640#comment-2419 Keep an eye on the other ninjas and gurus raising similar issues. There's been a good community at work for a couple of years -  see the pretty all-encompassing ID and data-sharing thread on idealgovernment.com.  Top industry ninja is Kim Cameron, MS's identity architect - check out his 7 Laws of Identity  at <a href="http://www.identityblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.identityblog.com/</a> which have gained good cross-industry consenus. Other important ninja voices you might want to check out eg Jerry Fishenden, MS's national technology officer, Robin Wilton at SunMicrosystems etc. All making important at times trenchant but constructive (and importantly, intelligible to the non-tecchies) comment on their blogs and elsewhere. And if you want to imbibe the spirit of the ninja underworld (and I guarantee you a laugh out loud), have a look at the exemplary pertinent video art of Eclechtec: <a href="http://eclectech.co.uk/clarkeidcards.php" rel="nofollow"><em>http://eclectech.co.uk/clarkeidcards.php</em></a><em> and </em><a href="http://eclectech.co.uk/swizz.php" rel="nofollow"><em>http://eclectech.co.uk/swizz.php</em></a><em>. </em>Fabulous Keep an eye on the other ninjas and gurus raising similar issues. There’s been a good community at work for a couple of years -  see the pretty all-encompassing ID and data-sharing thread on idealgovernment.com.  Top industry ninja is Kim Cameron, MS’s identity architect – check out his 7 Laws of Identity  at http://www.identityblog.com/ which have gained good cross-industry consenus. Other important ninja voices you might want to check out eg Jerry Fishenden, MS’s national technology officer, Robin Wilton at SunMicrosystems etc. All making important at times trenchant but constructive (and importantly, intelligible to the non-tecchies) comment on their blogs and elsewhere. And if you want to imbibe the spirit of the ninja underworld (and I guarantee you a laugh out loud), have a look at the exemplary pertinent video art of Eclechtec: http://eclectech.co.uk/clarkeidcards.php and http://eclectech.co.uk/swizz.php. Fabulous

]]> By: Atopian.org http://www.owen.org/blog/640/comment-page-1#comment-2417 Atopian.org Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:09:24 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/640#comment-2417 <strong>Minor linkage...</strong> What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy Conditions under which government data sharing could well be desirable ... Minor linkage…

What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy
Conditions under which government data sharing could well be desirable
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]]> By: martinb http://www.owen.org/blog/640/comment-page-1#comment-2418 martinb Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:19:12 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/640#comment-2418 A good start, Owen. I'm particularly worried about the ability to draw all the data together into a meta-database. Even if they are separate stores, if you can query across them with foreign keys, then bob's your uncle... Remember also the definition of <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/80029--a.htm#2" rel="nofollow">Sensitive Data</a> as per the Data Protection Act 1998. The data being talked about here is surely within that scope. Therefore, we'd need a qualifying clause to the effect that it explicitly names which classes of Sensitive Personal Data the Register may be linked to and excludes all others (like say DNA). A good start, Owen.

I’m particularly worried about the ability to draw all the data together into a meta-database. Even if they are separate stores, if you can query across them with foreign keys, then bob’s your uncle…

Remember also the definition of Sensitive Data as per the Data Protection Act 1998. The data being talked about here is surely within that scope.

Therefore, we’d need a qualifying clause to the effect that it explicitly names which classes of Sensitive Personal Data the Register may be linked to and excludes all others (like say DNA).

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