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Alternative to Hailstorm and Liberty, Code-Named NSGPI, Takes Birth From Online Privacy Guard Inc.


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TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2002

Online Privacy Guard Inc. announced that it has filed with FTC FTC

See Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
 a "request for determination of privacy issues" to make its privacy and security technologies widely accessible for e-commerce transactions, eliminating all privacy and security risks in such transactions. A copy is at http://www.OnlinePrivacyGuard.com/company_info.html

The code name "NSGPI" stands for National Scope GOPAN Privacy Infrastructure. Online Privacy Guard Inc., a division of Internet Promise Group LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, is a developer of Privacy and Security Technologies for the connected world.

Tara Chand Tara Chand is a prominent algoza player of Punjab, India who performs along with Kuldip Manak. He lives in Ludhiana. With the advent of MTV culture in India, traditional cultural music has either declined in terms of popularity or artists who can perform are hard to find. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of OnlinePrivacyGuard Inc., said: "Hailstorm See .NET My Services.  and Liberty are focused on convenience and not the privacy and security of personal sensitive data. Both these initiatives are interface definitions to make the personal sensitive data of consumers available to the businesses with greater ease than has been possible before."

Mr. Chand noted, "Privacy Rights organizations have already gone on record saying that these initiatives do not provide privacy." Chand continued: "What these initiatives provide are false privacy and security because the privacy and security depends upon a business's current or future employees and the security of their record keeping systems. These initiatives are unable to address these issues, as they are data interface definitions."

With GOPAN privacy and security technologies, the personal sensitive information does not reside in any database anywhere. In GOPAN, unlike in current approaches, the sensitive information is not in an owner's own hard drive, a smart card, merchant computer system, and not even a trusted third party In cryptography, a trusted third party (TTP) is an entity which facilitates interactions between two parties who both trust the third party; they use this trust to secure their own interactions. TTPs are common in cryptographic protocols, for example, a certificate authority (CA).  database.

GOPAN technology is not encryption when it comes to storage of personal sensitive data. The personal information is assembled from bits of shredded shred  
n.
1. A long irregular strip that is cut or torn off.

2. A small amount; a particle: not a shred of evidence.

tr.v.
 and aliased See alias and aliasing.  pieces, only on a need to know basis for a transaction initiated by the customer.

Chand said, "A combination of GOPAN Privacy and Security technologies and Hailstorm/Liberty type interfaces may be an unbeatable combination when it comes to providing privacy, security and convenience -- all three and not just convenience alone -- to the consumer and the businesses in this internet-centric world."

Online Privacy Guard Inc. (www.OnlinePrivacyGuard.com), a division of Internet Promise Group LLC, is active in privacy and security technologies with pending patents that blend privacy, security and convenience, benefiting both the consumers and the businesses that serve those consumers.
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