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

Wed Aug 28 21:11:30 UTC 2013

I think William Heath who runs Mydex is on this list, and will introduce you to the right people there.

I trust that they've got it right from various discussions with them.

Regards
Sam

On 28 Aug 2013, at 22:05, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> 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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