English
Noun
en-noun|sg=data laundering
- Obscuring, removing, or fabricating the provenance of illegally obtained data such that it may be used for lawful purposes.
Quotations
First reference in context:
Jusletter 3. Oktober 2005
Thilo Weichert, Privacy and Data Protection in federal police cooperation
http://www.privacyconference2005.org/fileadmin/PDF/weichert_e.pdf
"Therefore, it is usually impossible to find out the point of origin of specific information, whether it
was obtained lawfully and how its utilisation is limited. In this context one can even talk about «data laundering
facility»: data obtained unlawfully can be passed «across the table» and be processed without complaints by the
receiver in a now cleaned form and can thereupon be passed back." - Thilo Weichert 2005
Data laundering is the one of the professions of the character Sally Shears in William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive however it is never defined.
"Perhaps, Kumiko decided, Sally had once been something along ronin
lines, a kind of samurai. In London, however, she'd become something else, a
businesswoman. Supporting herself in some unspecified way, she gradually became
a backer, providing funds for various kinds of business operations. (What was a
"credit sink"? What was "laundering data"?)" - Mona Lisa Overdrive 1988
Also Referred to as Information Laundering
"If an entity illegally discloses information to a third party, then the third party makes it public on the Internet. The covered entity is criminally liable under the proposed rule but not third party or the web site owner. Once published on the web, and perhaps linked to by the NY Times, first amendment rights kick in. That snapshot of information could never be re-protected. It would be irretrievably placed in the public domain. Hence, information laundering is the appropriate term."
http://lists.essential.org/med-privacy/msg00458.html
"Information Laundering: How an interest group and its congressional allies strategically used evidence to influence federal policies restricting smoking on aircraft"
Title of a talk to be given at the The 13th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health
http://2006.confex.com/uicc/wctoh/techprogram/P5655.HTM
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