Privacy by Design – providing a proactive approach to privacy protection
26 November 2008
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 the Information Commissioner’s Office will be hosting the ‘Privacy by Design’ conference at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester.
The centrepiece of this free conference will be the publication of an ICO commissioned report promoting the concept of privacy by design. The report has been commissioned from the Enterprise Privacy Group and will explore the barriers to widespread uptake of privacy enhancing technologies and the means of designing privacy protection into plans and projects. It will also look at some of the solutions available and recommend what can be done to improve the level of engagement in this area.
After a series of high profile data losses over the last year and the final report from the Home Affairs Committee into ’the Surveillance Society’, this conference will look at the significant benefits of considering privacy and building in ‘Privacy by Design’ from first principles. Adopting this approach should be an essential feature of any development which carries risks to individuals’ personal information and to the public’s trust and confidence in those who hold information about them.
This conference is intended to examine practical and proactive approaches to privacy protection and also builds on some of the themes in our ’Surveillance Society: Turning Debate into Action’ conference of December 2007.
The conference agenda is currently being finalised but is also likely to examine broader issues such as the experience of the first year of privacy impact assessments, information assurance and information assurance and governance.
View the conference programme
Registration for the ‘Privacy by Design’ conference is now closed.
Further details of the ICO ‘Privacy by Design’ project can be viewed on our Research pages.