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Why Data Security Regulation is Bad

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dissent

Danny Lieberman comments:

The first government knee-jerk reaction in the face of a data breach is to create more government privacy compliance regulation.

This is analogous to shooting yourself in the foot while you hold the loaded weapon in one hand and apply band-aids with the other.

Democracies like Israel, the US and the UK have “a tendency to extremism tempered by having to compromise” (courtesy of D.M. Thomas in his NY Times book review of Philip Roth’s “Operation Shylock“.)

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1 thought on “Why Data Security Regulation is Bad”

  1. Info A$$urance says:
    February 13, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    Knee-jerk? This stuff has been happening since – mid 1980’s. Things need to be updated. The courts are fighting to get convictions when a big case is in front of them. This book smells of an overcooked propaganda sales effort. Trying to “rise” the stench higher to drive sales.

    I am “sure” the guy would say the same thing about a terrorist attack that worked thru a security flaw. The governments would work in concert to ensure the effective communications within the intelligence communities. I honestly think the next big “attack” could easily be come from the infrastructure……

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