FYI - Pew looks at the future of privacy

["Mike Davis" <mike.davis.sd@gmail.com>]

"...In the end, the survey came back with split results - 55 percent said
that an accepted policy won't exist, while the other 45 percent said one
would emerge within the next 10 years. ..."

Of course a "Privacy Policy" that is globally ubiquitous won't appear in 10
years, maybe ever..
The whole privacy requirements effort is then necessarily all over the place
as there is no overarching policy to frame them.
Even if we did get a set of these 'operational' requirements, then we'd have
to translate them to "technical" requirements to be able to get to buildable
specifications, by which privacy enhancing technologies (PET) could build
to, ensuring interoperability and end2end security.

With no clear specifications, how do we build secure, interoperable PET?
Aka, as Covey suggests... start with the end in mind.
Interoperable PET.. develop open specifications, based on a services
construct, work back towards and accommodate the requirements, which
eventually will map to an overall policy, as the other way will never get
there.... 
Start with a cyber model that facilitates privacy by design, that proposes
an open privacy framework built from data centric services that are then
encapsulated into specifications that can be mapped back to any / all
operational requirements, thus changed, added, tweaked as needed.

Not that hard to do.. see our "Cyber 4 PbD" approach.. published in the IEEE
CE magazine this month too
http://www.sciap.org/blog1/wp-content/uploads/Cyber-4-PbD_IEEE-CE-mag-articl
e.pdf

Have a privacy enhanced, prosperous new year too!
CIAO


What happens to privacy in an increasingly digital world?
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/tech/2014/12/28/pew-study-future-priv
acy/20906449/

To answer that question, Pew Research Center recently interviewed more than
2,500 technology experts.

Specifically, Pew asked whether respondents think there will be a widely
accepted public policy by 2025 that allows companies to make money by mining
data while still giving individuals the ability to keep information private
if they choose.

In the end, the survey came back with split results - 55 percent said that
an accepted policy won't exist, while the other 45 percent said one would
emerge within the next 10 years.

While the experts were split on whether a "privacy infrastructure" would
exist by 2025, most shared the view that living in a digital world makes
privacy difficult to come by.  The survey is part of Pew's Internet Project,
which recognizes the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web.
Pew has released surveys periodically this year asking experts their views
on topics such as privacy, cybersecurity and the use of drones.

For those that said a common public policy would not emerge, Pew said there
was agreement that "living a public life is the new default." A lack of
privacy is made all the more normal, some said, as companies and governments
mine more and more data.  As Clifford Lynch, executive director for the
Coalition for Networked Information, responded: "Government and industry
have aligned and allied to almost totally eliminate consumer and citizen
privacy. This will not be allowed to change at scale - it is too convenient
and too profitable for all parties involved."   On the other side, some
experts said an accepted privacy policy will emerge as new tools give
consumers more control of the information they wish to share.

"Key to our emerging privacy-creating system will be the ability of
individuals to assert their own terms, policies and preferences in dealings
with others, including companies and governments ..." wrote David "Doc"
Searls, director of ProjectVRM at Harvard University's Berkman Center for
Internet & Society.  Some respondents said world cultures are too varied to
come up with a singular policy on privacy. Others said the "Internet of
Things" will make it more difficult to protect privacy as technology and
devices actively collect data about users.

Still, by 2025, Packet Clearing House Executive Director Bill Woodcock said
a new generation will have grown up with that technology. That will give
them the ability to handle changes that seem worrisome currently, he said.  
Personally identifying information "will be collected even more than now -
literally, at every turn, in every public place, any time one uses most
technology products; but, users will have a general awareness that that's
the case, and most users will take some steps to manage or mitigate it,"
Woodcock said in his response.

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