Towards A Tokenized Data World: A New World Is Being Created

The crazy world of data

The number of data hacks seems to increase by the day, and where we find bad practices being applied in places that we assumed would have been secure. The BA hack, thus, puts large question marks over the way that our data is being handled, and we need a change soon, and put the control of data back into the hands of those who really matter … the citizen.

Old world of data

We have built a very simple data world doesn’t look that different to the one we created in the 1980s. We still use relational databases and still use SQL commands to interrogate them. Okay, we have now moved the cloud, but the methods we use to access them. Surprisingly the move to actually secure them has often been met with silence from the Dev Ops teams, as any encryption within them is likely to either slow the whole data infrastructure down or will break the running of the code.

• Why do we still blindly pass our sensitive data without encryption, and assume that if we secure the tunnel we will be okay?
• Why do we still personally identifiable data in a plaintext format?
• Why do we still use pseudo-anonymizers can easily be resolved into actual people? Whether it’s the CHI number in Scotland or…