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The Privacy Control Conundrum
There is a significant gap & glaring absence of well-defined, privacy-specific controls in the industry. Instead of clear, actionable measures, the industry is awash with objectives often mislabeled as controls…
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Learn more about the forthcoming privacy design certification for organizations product, service or business process design process.
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As advocates for a privacy design standard, the IOPD and its members vow to put privacy first in all its practices. We hold ourselves to the highest standard which we expect from all businesses that shall be recognized publicly for good privacy practices.
The mission of the IOPD is to define and drive adoption of privacy design standards. We seek to provide accountability through the certification mechanism and evangelize the standards through education.
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Design Assurance Standard Public Release
Introducing the Design Assurance Standard for public commentary! The Design Process Standard (Process Standard) was adopted in January 2023 with this Design Assurance Standard (Assurance Standard) following two years later…
Privacy’s Lack of Control
I’m running into increasing calls from clients and colleagues in the privacy engineering world for a comprehensive and authoritative list of controls. Research and extensive discussion has revealed several uncomfortable truths…
A Privacy Engineer’s Thoughts on Criticism of the Solove Taxonomy
Last week, I voraciously consumed a 2023 law review article published by María P. Angel and Ryan Calo criticizing Daniel Solove ’s Taxonomy of Privacy and Professor Solove’s 2024 critique
