For one thing, banking-secrecy and data-protection laws will make it fiddly for Credit Suisse and Winterthur to pool information about customers.

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Google, by contrast, fought the subpoena on grounds of trade secrecy and avoided revealing user data.

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Again, technology is driving this enhanced due diligence capability and control of data is being wrestled from those who have benefited from secrecy.

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There is a lot of secrecy surrounding Saudi Arabia's production and geological data.

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As we move to electronic health records and potentially a world where there is much more health data in the form of DNA sequence and other information, I wonder how important privacy and secrecy really are.

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