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The Privacy by Design (PbD) framework is characterized by the taking of proactive rather than reactive measures. It anticipates the risks and prevents privacy invasive events before they occur.

Ann Cavoukian – Privacy by Design

Saturday, Jan. 28 marks International Data Privacy Day and Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian held a Beware of Surveillance Design Symposium to discuss the Canadian government’s proposed “lawful access” legislation.

One big ethical question looms over all the excitement about the potential of big data: how do we maintain privacy while gleaning insight from all of this collected information? Marie Wallace offers some fresh thinking on the topic. One of the ideas she shares is to encourage transparency…to have retailers share some of the assumptions they’re making about us – as they’re advertising to us.