Privacy Issues for business in the new digital age
Marie Shroff (Privacy Commissioner)
This session started with a fizz and a whimper, I think based more on the usual audience for the Privacy Commission than the subject matter itself. I did enjoy the comics though 🙂
- Customers are starting to take an ACTUAL interest in their privacy (~80-90% are concerned or ‘very concerned’)
- Media starting to pick up on these stories as the articles drive interest
- Bigger companies are starting to see the moral and ethical necessity to adopt privacy
- Expectation of future tweaking suggestions for privacy act
- “Value your CIO as your would your CFOâ€
- Despite the cloud context, people are expecting the same flexibility and control over their data as when it was locally domicilled
The discussion that followed was interesting
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