Trust but Pre-Verify?
Author(s) -
Fritz Scheuren
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of privacy and confidentiality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2575-8527
DOI - 10.29012/jpc.v3i2.606
Subject(s) - stewardship (theology) , information privacy , privacy software , position (finance) , privacy by design , linkage (software) , internet privacy , privacy policy , personally identifiable information , computer science , computer security , information sensitivity , privacy protection , business , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , politics , gene
Governments should be uncompromising in jointly seeking both information and privacy goals for the data that is in their stewardship. The GAO’s 2001 report on Record Linkage and Privacy places a combined high priority on information gains and privacy issues–and presents this position in contrast to an alternative “zero-sum approach” that conceptualizes privacy and information mainly, or only in terms of, trade-offs. The 2001 GAO report further indicates that the way to achieve a combined high priority (for both information gains and privacy issues) is through an improved “privacy-protection tool box” to insure linkages that preserve privacy:
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