Metadata retention scheme could be a bonanza <http://www.smh.com.au/comment/metadata-retention-scheme-could-be-a-bonanza-20141030-11e4gs.html>
A comment article in Sydney Morning Herald (posted 8pm 30 Oct 2014) by Wilson Da Silva (ex Cosmos magazine editor-in-chief) lauds the benefits to us as consumers of being able to get hold of all our own metadata when it is retained for the government. It gives no consideration at all to the problems and cost of enabling any such access, and the even wider potential for exposure through deliberate abuse and errors. The problem of authenticating millions of requestors for multiple million metadata records - to be granted to each person, and handed out to no-one else? Makes the design, implementation, and roll out of a travel card or Electronic Health records look trivial. The Agency will not be concerned if they receive more records than requested, it will be all useful big data - but if someone else receives my records I would be rather annoyed. At least. -- Chris Johnson _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
