Business is contributing to re-thinking effective privacy frameworks, too. Microsoft's Scott Charney has been developing his thinking on 'End to End Trust' for a couple of years now and returned to the theme at the RSA Conference 2010.
The US Federal Trade Commission and the European Trade Commission have both revealed a recent change in their thinking on privacy protection best practice that shifts the focus from choice to trust. This development is consistent with some work we’ve been doing here in Australia, and talking about here on Open Forum, for some time now.
Without any expectation that privacy statements should be able to be read and understood by the average person, how is it reasonable to expect the average person to accept full responsibility for the disclosure of their personal private information?
The model I propose draws on the concept of an electronic service broker as the foundation for an integrated approach to the management of personal health data and information.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin: both powerful advocates of a right to privacy; both choosing how little and how much of their private lives that they wanted to reveal.
May you all have a Happy New Year that is also safe online and offline and where you, not others, control what happens to the personal information about you and about what you are doing.
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