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…

Privacy Engineering 10 years on

In July 2023, Kim Wuyts and Isabel Barbera invited R Jason Cronk to present the keynote talk to the International Workshop on Privacy Engineering in Delft, Netherlands. Subsequent to that, and because we felt there wouldn’t be an overlapping audience, Nandita Narla and Nikita Samarin, invited him to give the same talk to another group of privacy engineers at the PEP23 workshop ahead of SOUPS in Anaheim, CA. For those who couldn’t be there at either event, Jason decided to write this blog post to summarize the talk.

Virtual Montréal and Ottawa KnowledgeNet

Join the Montréal and Ottawa chapters for an exciting bilingual webinar (French-English) on privacy by design (PbD). The discussion will include an introduction to the PbD concept, PbD in Quebec Law, how a standard can help and a PbD approach.

Virtual Joint Canadian KnowledgeNet

“Privacy by design” has been part of the privacy practitioners’ vernacular for well over a decade, but for many the phrase remains vague. In this talk, the author of the IAPP CIPT textbook, Strategic Privacy by Design, will walk through the development of a hypothetical smart thermostat following the recently released Design Process Standard from the Institute of Operational Privacy Design. For many participants this will open up a new avenue of thinking about privacy beyond the laws, principles and programmatic elements they are most familiar with and provide a level of concreteness to the concept beyond the broad to “build privacy in.”

Virtual Seattle KnowledgeNet

Please join this roundtable discussion of privacy risk management challenges, modern practices and case examples. This discussion will feature 45 minutes of questions to panelists and 15 minutes of audience questions.

In-Person Los Angeles KnowledgeNet

“Privacy by design” has been part of the privacy practitioner’s vernacular for well over a decade, but for many the phrase remains vague. In this talk, the author of the IAPP CIPT textbook, Strategic Privacy by Design, will walk through the development of a hypothetical smart thermostat following the recently released Design Process Standard from the Institute of Operational Privacy Design.

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