<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hi there,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Inspired by the increase in examples of mass dataloss from military sources (</font><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7199658.stm)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7199658.stm)</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> in the UK I'm researching the issue of the creation of personal activity and performance data within workplace information systems and the potential for such data to be processed into biographical information that relates to the performance of an individual. The focus of my study lies within the military, who culturally have some interesting perspectives on the concept of privacy. </font></span><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">My study draws on the increasing tendency for integration of government and commercial information systems and the risk that this poses in regard to the potential aggregation of information about an individual, their activities and performance, potentially exposing biographical information relating to a person to an authorized user who should have have no right to examine it.<br><br>I am interested in progressing a line of inquiry into the extent to which legislation (primarily European Union and UK) fails to address within the context of 'personal data' the creation of work performance data that relates directly to an individual (i.e what work he/she does and how long it takes might be used as a means of performance assessment) and the movement of such data across boundaries (e.g to industry partners), the lack of visibility that the 'data-subject' has of this information and the use to which the 'data controller' enables processing. </span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The link here to the concept of privacy is an interesting military cultural issue that appears to indicate that whilst military personnel apparently value privacy within their 'off-duty' lives as normal citizens (i.e they have the same concerns as a member of the public for protection of their identity and 'personal' information), in their 'duty' role they have little or no concern regarding the extent or visibility of information about them generated as a result of their primary duties (i.e engineering work performance). This, I think shows an interestingly 'bi-polar' perspective taken by military personnel, and implies a significant level of trust in the organization that they work for to ensure that this information remains confidential and is used appropriately. Interestingly in the UK we have yet, to my knowledge has a case of an industry partner has undermined this trust as in this case previously reported:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/02/Military-computer-contractor-convicted-on-ID-theft-charges_1.html">http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/02/Military-computer-contractor-convicted-on-ID-theft-charges_1.html</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">I have found the information and opinions of the list invaluable in understanding the breadth of the dataloss issue and would be very grateful to anyone for their time to complete my survey (which would take about 4 minutes to complete). </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">If this subject is of interest to you I'd be delighted to receive your completed survey and any additional comment you may have. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#323232"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9Eefg06dUMJN1CtqhytyQw_3d_3d">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9Eefg06dUMJN1CtqhytyQw_3d_3d</a></span></font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Thank you very much for your time,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Jim</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div></div></body></html>