Fading data could improve privacy
- not obvious to all, but the circuit diagram is for a slow fading light – like the one in your car -
This is the BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10324209.stm
Dutch researcher Dr Harold van Heerde is looking into ways to gradually "degrade" the information that sites gather about visitors. Slowly swapping details for more general information can help guard against accidental disclosure, he said. "There are so many weak points in security that you can never be sure that your data is safe,"
Dr van Heerde is from the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) at the University of Twente
Something I have been thinking about as well; here is my dilemma.
Facebook make me an offer, based on cost economics for themselves, which says after 12 months you need to pay $1 per year for us to keep your data “live” e.g on spinning disks so it is easily accessed. If you don’t pay we will achieve it. (See post on GreenPeace http://blog.mydigitalfootprint.com/greenpeace-and-the-cloud - saving the world by deleting data)
Fabulous says the student - where do I sign up. A self cleaning footprint where employees cannot see my history
Fabulous says the professional - where do I sign up. I can keep all my professional history and it is so cheap.
However, have Facebook destroyed their own model as old data is not about analysis and behaviour but it does make your site look good and keeps your active users up.
If all the youth move platform and as there is no cost of keeping your Facebook page, they will not delete it, if they don’t pay – slowly all the data is achieved until there is nothing left and the profile has little or no content. This user profile should not then be used in any valuation. Not sure a great service.
The mobile industry had the same issue with pre-paid SIMS – when is a SIM dead, how many months without a login (they opted for 3 months)
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I understand Dr van Heerde is looking at IP address fading, but it has wider applications for your digital footprint. Fading data sounds interesting, but who is going to be the evangelist - GreenPeace