By Nick Heath
Published: Monday 01 September 2008
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Cassandra
Location
Edinburgh Scotland
Occupation
Civil Servant / Business Analyst
Comment
People can protect themselves better and monitor activity closer when they are aware of a data breach. This is no cure-all: even if all electronic personal data processes are audited there can still be data breaches. Data on paper is also a risk.
This can leads to better practice as the nature or frequency of breaches will have customers voting with their feet. We will need standard measures and definitions of breaches to be able to assess and compare security risks.
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