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Improper data security policies - the basic menace to informatics

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2011

Abstract

Informatics is changing very quickly, quicker than other domains. Knowledge and skills of many IT professions are multi-domain and include abstract findings, craft and social skills as well as basics of economy.

Under these circumstances it is very complicated for schools to keep the IT education quality. At the same time the informatics must face the downtrend of the interest in the study of technical domains.

An important if not crucial contribution to the solution of this problem would be a creation of an information system S allowing flexible system of evaluation of quality of schools and perspectiveness of study branches based on professional success of the alumni. The basic principles of such systems are presented.

It is moreover shown that such system cannot be legally built. The reason is improper if not idiot rules for personal data protection.

It is shown that it is a general problem restricting usability of information systems especially in the public sector like education and health-care. There are cases in health care when the basic human right, the right for life, is threatened.

It is hypotesized that data protection is the Goldratt''s bottleneck of informatics and that it is an overall society threat.