Privacy Musings
Today’s
guest blog on data privacy comes from Sarah Seabury, Director at TPI. 
Musing time for sourcing advisors, and most executives these days, seems to be normally conducted at 30,000 ft. So no surprise that during my final descent to a country that I had never visited before, I found it interesting to consider how much data this new location already holds about me - despite the fact that I had yet to actually arrive.
Like most travellers I made arrangements in advance,
so my credit card details, personal address, passport number, business contact
details and probably much more arrived before I did. Possibly these details had
already been transferred to another country or a third party organisation for
processing without my knowledge. Multiply this by all the countries that I’ve
visited and the many personal transactions involving my personal data during my
lifetime and what do you get? – a
virtual server with my name on it, over which I have very little control,
despite the fact that all the data fundamentally belongs to me.
