Summary: This text explains how to identify and reduce privacy risks using clear strategies and controls. It highlights the importance of understanding privacy harms, which depend on context and actor motivations. Finally, it stresses balancing information and control to protect privacy effectively.
Professor Daniel Solove’s “A Taxonomy of Privacy” breaks privacy harms into four broad categories, which are based on his comprehensive survey of laws, precedent and existing norms. (View Highlight)
“data is any sequence of one or more symbols given meaning by specific act of interpretation” and “information is knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance.” (View Highlight)
Talk to your customers or at least the general population. Corporate life is insulating. You have on blinders. You may be more accepting of privacy harms than the general population. (View Highlight)
That being said, quantifying risk can help with prioritization if you don’t have endless resources to provide mitigating controls. (View Highlight)
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