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I want to subscribe to a print magazine. I send my payment to them, with my name and address. Each month they send me a magazine. At the end of the year they send me a couple of reminders. What technologies will protect my information? Here, the magazine has to register. They need to say what information they're collecting, and why. There are penalties if they then do other stuff with the information.
Your name and address are already matters of public record, anyway. This is hardly the kind of data that we're talking about. For important, sensitive data - the kind of stuff that could someone could use to blackmail or manipulate you - the relevant technology is cryptography. The bureaucratic solution will inevitably end in anyone you send any data to being required by law to transfer the data itself to a central g…
>> Each EU country for instance is obliged to have such an agency.
> This sounds like a good way to create a centralized clearinghouse for abuse and corruption via regulatory capture.
The EU has these agencies.
You said
> The bureaucratic solution will inevitably end in anyone you send any data to being required by law to transfer the data itself to a central government-run data store
Which hasn't happened in the EU.