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Privacy By Design: Protect User Data From 'get-Go'
The Privacy By Design framework seeks to ensure governments and companies consider privacy protection from the beginning of a product's development plan.
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Ann Cavoukian, executive director of Ryerson University's Privacy and Big Data Institute and former Ontario Commissioner for Information and Privacy, is spearheading the Privacy By Design (PBD) project, an international effort to develop a framework for governments and companies to consider privacy protection from the very beginning of a software or mobile device development plan.
PBD is being adopted as an international standard and has been translated into 37 languages, according to Cavoukian. She says PBD is vital for maintaining personal privacy in technological applications and notes the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is working to apply privacy engineering and risk models for PBD standards.
There are currently nine major applications areas for PBD processes: surveillance cameras in mass transit systems, biometrics used in casinos and gaming facilities, smart meters and smart grids, mobile communications, near-field communications, RFID and sensor technologies, redesigning ID geolocation, remote healthcare, and big data and analytics.
Although there also are ongoing projects between the European Union and the U.S. to bridge the gaps in how both regions approach privacy, the U.S. government already is embracing some PBD concepts in its domestic operations.
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