IBM screen shield scrambles private data
Ever wonder just how much of your personal information call centre workers have access to? The scary news is probably all of it, if a new security system from IBM research is anything to go by.
The MAGEN (Masking Gateway for Enterprises) software aims to mask sensitive information used in banking, health and government systems. MAGEN treats information on the screen as a picture, and relies on optical character recognition to determine which fields need to be blanked out or replaced with random values.
