Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad Hard Drive Passwords

If the data being protected is an individual file per patient, then I
could agree that the date of modification would be private information.
However, if the data is a complete database for the entire practice or
office, then the date of modification would be treated just like the
size of the database... a non-protected piece of information.

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Dimitrios wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:38:42 -0600 "David Goldman" <David@dgoldman.com> wrote:
>
>> Second, normally only the data is encrypted, not the FAT table or
>> the directory information. The laws exist to protect the medical
>> records of patients or the names and account numbers of bank clients
>> but no law requires the protection of the SIZE of your database or
>> the late date of update of your client list. Right?
>
>actualy that is under debate.
>
>even the date of update can be considered personal data, thus fall under
>the new data protection act (i'm talking about EU law here).
>
>though the size of the overal database is clearly not personal data.
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