Two excellent articles this week covering the data privacy issue. In the New York Times on Wednesday there was Personal Data for the Taking, which outlined how easy it is to legally acquire personal information on practically anyone. Then In the FT today there's Access denied: the data industry may face new restrictions after privacy breaches. The FT article has a table from privacyrights.org which details recent data breaches in the US. Ironically, the Patriot Act and other compliance-related regulation helped juice these businesses, culminating with LexisNexis paying $775 million for Seisint. The data brokers were completely self-regulated. "But times have changed," the FT article concludes. "Today congressional lawmakers appear less inclined to trust data brokers to regulate themselves than in 1997, when few could have imagined and potentially dangerous - the convergence of personal information and technology could become."
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