Ann Cavoukian Quotes
Consent allows individuals to set conditions for the use of their data, access the information relating to them that others have obtained, verify the accuracy of that information, check to make sure companies comply with the rules, and seek redress for any harm that results from the misuse of their data. Remove consent, and the other privacy checks and balances collapse.
Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, Institute for Privacy, Information & Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada, “Data Minding: A Response to ‘Privacy Pragmatism’”, Foreign Affairs, September / October 2014
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In Russia, with its authoritarian tradition and secret police, people have little expectation of privacy. Kaspersky was here referring to Europe and America as well as Russia.
He was referring to all the data that health insurance companies, retail stores, vendors such as Amazon.com, credit reporting companies, maintain on most Americans. He made the pint that private sources maintain much more private information on Americans than does the government. People acquiesce as they perceive some benefit.
The large credit reporting and data gathering companies collected information on Americans without their consent and then sold their information through “data brokers” to companies who would then try and sell products and services based on the information they obtained. In many cases the brokers sold the information to fraudulent operations who swindled or committed fraud against the names they bought. When members of Congress investigated the industry, the companies who collected the data claimed that they had no idea that there were consumer rip offs they were facilitating and claimed to have “rules” that prevented such use. But they said that they could not possibly know what the data brokers were doing as they were independent companies.
Almost no members of Congress has been trained in modern digital science and technology, and neither have their staff people. The result is that they have to depend on people for information and understanding who have vested interests which is not very desirable for objective legislating.
Ann Cavoukian is the former Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Canadian province of Ontario. Her concept of privacy by design, which takes privacy into account throughout the system engineering process, was expanded on, as part of a joint Canadian-Dutch team, both before and during her tenure as commissioner (1997 to 2014).
