Privacy Practices: The Challenge of Safeguarding Digital Data

Privacy once meant drawing the drapes.

Privacy once meant drawing the drapes. Now that we depend on technology to do the world’s business, privacy means securing data, protecting personal information and keeping hackers at bay. Drawing the drapes in an electronic sense will call for a complex system of safeguards and require policymakers to create guidelines.

Before leaving for her new post as Secretary of Homeland Security, Arizona governor Janet Napolitano signed a proclamation declaring January 28 Data Privacy Day, observed across the U.S., Canada and 27 European nations. The W. P. Carey School of Business celebrated the day with a symposium for privacy leaders in the public, private and academic arenas. The event was hosted by the Center for Advancing Business Through Information Technology (CABIT) and Intel.

Moderator and center Director Julie Smith David challenged speakers and audience members to identify the hurdles impeding privacy assurance and to suggest solutions for security breaches that plague information systems from computers to smart phones.

Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey

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