RE: [projectvrm] Corporations cannot be discreet nor can they be trusted - they ar e not human beings

["Crosbie Fitch" < >]

> From: Doc Searls 
> FWIW, there are companies on this list that keep data for 
> individuals, but in an encrypted form for which only the user 
> (or customer) has the key.
> 
> But, in those cases, the companies have no interest in 
> personal data itself, but rather only in providing other services.
> 
> Not sure this is relevant, but it is interesting, methinks.

By 'data' I was referring to 'personal data', the information that entities
may collect as a consequence of communicating or trading with persons -
whose subsequent dissemination, some people believe, can be constrained
through a technological/legislative 'framework'.

However, you touch on a powerful distributed systems concept - to encourage
wide distribution and replication of data without any attempt at
constraining its diffusion. Any need for confidentiality is obtained via
encryption (though, of course, those privy to keys remain at liberty to make
others privy as they see fit - 'to bring others into their confidence').