Graham Coult Editor-in-chief Managing Information magazine ASLIB Annual Member Evening 2012: Giving Your Service The Edge Privacy and Data Protection: Giving your service the edge Information Privacy, Security and Forensics in the Digital Age Symposium, Aberystwyth University, 6 th September 2012

What is Privacy and Data Protection? How has it evolved? How can it give your service the edge?

What are these terms Privacy and Data Protection? Understand difference Understand what they mean for organisations

How has PDP evolved? Driven by experiences in mainland Europe in 1920s, 30s, and 40s with extremist regimes Emphasis on individual rights – the right to control use of ones own data The right to be forgotten How practical are these ideals in the modern world, and especially in context of Social Media? Other parts of world more market driven US – market driven, but also rights of individual. No overall binding international treaty

How can PDP give your service the edge? Risk management Protecting reputational capital Good service to care about customer, employee and stakeholder sensitive data Become a knowledge centre and source of guidance

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