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HOT DOC: One Privacy Paper to Read this Week
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Washington is obsessed with the concept of "privacy by design" — it's in the FTC's privacy report, it guides the White House's online privacy blueprint and it's proven infectious on Capitol Hill. But the mind behind the idea — Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the top privacy cop in Ontario, Canada — is out with a new report today that points out the intersection of "privacy by design" with personal data vaults, and similar technologies — an industry segment that's starting to explode.
The idea behind these vaults: Companies help users centralize their data, sensitive or otherwise, with the goal of helping Web users control who accesses it, port it over to other services or — an idea still in its infancy — monetize it in some way. (Cavoukian points out the D.C.-based company Personal, whose leader writes the foreword to her white paper, as an example of this sort of system.) The broad argument: Cavoukian wants to see privacy-by-design brought to this new ecosystem as it matures. The goal is to ensure a level of trust and reliability between users and data vault companies, while setting baseline privacy expectations between the data vault companies and the third parties that receive the data. She continues: "In a PDE environment, in which personal data is collected and shared with the permission of the individual, the devil will truly be in the details. In the wrong hands, one’s PDV and activities within the PDE could be exploited as a major surveillance tool."
Source: Politico.com
Paper: Privacy by Design and the Emerging Personal Data Ecosystem |
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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