[MyData & Open Data] This man thinks big data and privacy can co-exist, and here's his plan

[stef]

howdy,

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:28:37PM +0100, Andy Turner wrote:
> Some personal data can be stored very securely in a Mydex Personal Data Store (http://mydex.org/understand-pds/).

i dabble in crypto and security, and after browsing the site i have not been
convinced, do you know about any technical descriptions on what crypto
protocols they deploy and how? there's a lot of handwaving and promising going
on, but without the background, i'd say it's not very well defended against
insiders, super-injunctions and other anti-terrorism data-grabs. there's some
research on this based on zero knowledge protocols, and chaumian and brandsian
zero knowledge proofs, in the eu fp7 framework there's a project that is quite
well equipped with all the necessary patents in the field (ibm + microsoft).
so it's not impossible to do, but not very mature, and if you're in the wrong
jurisdiction you might run into patent troubles.

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