Forbes: Why ‘Privacy By Design’ Is The New Corporate Hotness


Summary  Forbes: Why ‘Privacy By Design’ Is The New Corporate Hotness

How can companies with lots of sensitive data about us strive for “privacy by design” instead of “embarrassment by design“? After Fitbit.com fell into the latter camp by failing to foresee the downside of making its users’ activity-tracking-journals public by default (when one of the 800 activities users tracked was S-E-X), I reached out to Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian, who has been pushing companies since the 1990s to embrace the concept of “privacy by design.”
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Published Date  Jul 28, 2011
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