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Click to learn more about author Today’s information technology allows many organizations to generate, integrate, store, and analyze data of unprecedented size and complexity. In many cases, this is personal data, and its usage is restricted according to privacy laws and regulations. In 2018, the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation ( While analyzing collected personal data via analytics or First of all, let us define some technicalities of data anonymization. The term “anonymization method” refers to technical measures that modify personal data in such a way that certain privacy guarantees can be kept: • K-Anonymity makes sure that each person is indistinguishable amongst “k” others with respect to the attributes. That means an individual can no longer be identified as described. • Differential privacy, in turn, is known from statistical databases and often uses random numbers to hide individual information. Anonymization in an Enterprise Stack Now let us take a closer look at how these technical measures are applied in an enterprise stack. In most cases, the organization’s IT stack is divided into three planes — infrastructure plane, data plane, and application plane — located on-premise or in the cloud, or on both via a hybrid architecture. Applications typically collect personal data and store it in the Anonymization Use Cases A timely example of this is today’s hospitals, who want to use data to help combat COVID-19 by leveraging insights f...

Email: Jeanette Ives Erickson is Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and Senior Associate at The Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership. She is a graduate of Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Portland, Maine; Westbrook College, Portland, Maine; and Boston University Graduate School of Nursing, Boston, Massachusetts. Ives Erickson is a member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and was elected to the AONE Nominations Committee for 2002-2003. She is the inaugural recipient of AONE’s Prism Award in 2003 for the impact she has made in creating a culturally-sensitive environment for patients and staff. She was awarded an inaugural fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Executive Nurse Fellows Program in 1998. Today she is a member of the National Advisory Committee, and a member of the RWJ Executive Nurse Leadership Board, the newly formed RWJ alumni association. Ives Erickson was one of fifty-five successful women featured in Dr. Sylvia Rimm’s New York Times Bestseller, How Jane Won, published in 2001. • Email: Sally Millar is presently Director of Patient Care Services Information Systems and the Office of Patient Advocacy at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also co-chair of the Partners Healthcare System Conf...

Privacy by design is both a broad concept and a specific requirement of the using organizational and technical methods to reduce the amount and scope of data processing to the minimum necessary. If you don't embrace privacy by design, you may make your Privacy Policy inaccurate, which will also breach the GDPR. We'll break down the practical steps you need to take to avoid these problems when complying with the GDPR and other privacy laws. • 1. Background of Privacy by Design • 2. GDPR Requirements for Privacy by Design • 3. Other Privacy Laws and Privacy by Design • 4. Privacy Policies and Privacy by Design • 5. How to Create a Privacy Policy • 6. The Seven Principles of Privacy by Design • 6.1. Be Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative not Remedial • 6.2. Privacy as the Default • 6.3. Privacy Embedded into Design • 6.4. Full Functionality: Positive-Sum, not Zero-Sum • 6.5. End-to-End Security: Lifecycle Protection • 6.6. Visibility and Transparency • 6.7. Respect for User Privacy • 7. Conclusion Background of Privacy by Design The concept of privacy by design isn't new. It was already covered in broad terms by European privacy regulation (and associated national laws) in the early 1990s, while many other data laws around the world shared similar principles. The concept came to greater attention in a more formalised manner in 2009. Ann Cavoukian, at the time the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, presented a The most high profile incorporation of the framewor...

Last updated on June 06, 2023 Infosys Limited, its subsidiaries and branch operations hereinafter referred as ‘Infosys’ ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ is committed to respect your privacy and choices. The privacy statement (hereinafter “Privacy Statement” or “Statement”) highlights our privacy practices regarding Personal Information that we collect and process in compliance to applicable data privacy regulations. Objective: Through this privacy statement we intend to provide a synopsis of our privacy practices regarding Personal Information that we collect and process about you through various sources. Although the primary focus of this statement is on the data collected and processed through our websites, that link to this Privacy Statement, which include www.infosys.com, www.infosysbpm.com and their sub-domains such as blogs.infosys.com, abm.infosys.com, etc. (Collectively referred to as “Infosys Websites”), our adherence to the below mentioned principles remain across the organization towards personal data processing. Depending on the purposes of processing and your relationship with us as a data subject, we may provide additional customized privacy statements, more information on which can be found below. The scope of this Statement covers the categories of personal data collected, how we use or process such data, who are the recipients of such data, and your associated rights under applicable laws including how to exercise the same. The applicability of the Privacy Statement is...

Human beings value their privacy and the protection of their personal sphere of life. They value some control over who knows what about them. They certainly do not want their personal information to be accessible to just anyone at any time. But recent advances in information technology threaten privacy and have reduced the amount of control over personal data and open up the possibility of a range of negative consequences as a result of access to personal data. In the second half of the 20 th century data protection regimes have been put in place as a response to increasing levels of processing of personal data. The 21 st century has become the century of big data and advanced information technology (e.g. forms of deep learning), the rise of big tech companies and the platform economy, which comes with the storage and processing of exabytes of data. The revelations of Edward Snowden, and more recently the Cambridge Analytica case (Cadwalladr & Graham-Harrison 2018) have demonstrated that worries about negative consequences are real. The technical capabilities to collect, store and search large quantities of data concerning telephone conversations, internet searches and electronic payment are now in place and are routinely used by government agencies and corporate actors alike. The rise of China and the large scale of use and spread of advanced digital technologies for surveillance and control have only added to the concern of many. For business firms, personal data about c...

Templates Legal policy templates and how-to guides Need-based Solutions Compliance for various industries Documentation & Support Termly troubleshooting & documentation Compliance Quiz Answer a few questions to see if your business is compliant. Articles Informational articles on privacy law compliance & best practices What is GDPR Termly’s simple guide to the GDPR Google Consent Mode Set up Google Consent Mode With Termly The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced several changes to how organizations think about data protection, one of which is the legal enshrinement of Privacy by Design (PbD)in Article 25. But what does Privacy by Design mean, why does the GDPR require it, and how can you implement it? Keep reading to find out! Table of Contents • • • • • What Is Privacy by Design? Privacy by Design (PbD) is the concept that privacy should be built into systems and processes from the outset, rather than as an afterthought or add-on, to protect user privacy and prevent It was first proposed in the 1990s by Ann Cavoukian, former Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and has since become accepted as a best practice supported by data protection authorities around the world. Incorporating PbD into systems and processes in the early stages of your project (as well as throughout its lifecycle) offers major benefits: • It can prevent data breaches by proactively building privacy safeguards into systems that mitigate the risk of data breaches. • It can help ensure that y...

Human beings value their privacy and the protection of their personal sphere of life. They value some control over who knows what about them. They certainly do not want their personal information to be accessible to just anyone at any time. But recent advances in information technology threaten privacy and have reduced the amount of control over personal data and open up the possibility of a range of negative consequences as a result of access to personal data. In the second half of the 20 th century data protection regimes have been put in place as a response to increasing levels of processing of personal data. The 21 st century has become the century of big data and advanced information technology (e.g. forms of deep learning), the rise of big tech companies and the platform economy, which comes with the storage and processing of exabytes of data. The revelations of Edward Snowden, and more recently the Cambridge Analytica case (Cadwalladr & Graham-Harrison 2018) have demonstrated that worries about negative consequences are real. The technical capabilities to collect, store and search large quantities of data concerning telephone conversations, internet searches and electronic payment are now in place and are routinely used by government agencies and corporate actors alike. The rise of China and the large scale of use and spread of advanced digital technologies for surveillance and control have only added to the concern of many. For business firms, personal data about c...

Privacy by design is both a broad concept and a specific requirement of the using organizational and technical methods to reduce the amount and scope of data processing to the minimum necessary. If you don't embrace privacy by design, you may make your Privacy Policy inaccurate, which will also breach the GDPR. We'll break down the practical steps you need to take to avoid these problems when complying with the GDPR and other privacy laws. • 1. Background of Privacy by Design • 2. GDPR Requirements for Privacy by Design • 3. Other Privacy Laws and Privacy by Design • 4. Privacy Policies and Privacy by Design • 5. How to Create a Privacy Policy • 6. The Seven Principles of Privacy by Design • 6.1. Be Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative not Remedial • 6.2. Privacy as the Default • 6.3. Privacy Embedded into Design • 6.4. Full Functionality: Positive-Sum, not Zero-Sum • 6.5. End-to-End Security: Lifecycle Protection • 6.6. Visibility and Transparency • 6.7. Respect for User Privacy • 7. Conclusion Background of Privacy by Design The concept of privacy by design isn't new. It was already covered in broad terms by European privacy regulation (and associated national laws) in the early 1990s, while many other data laws around the world shared similar principles. The concept came to greater attention in a more formalised manner in 2009. Ann Cavoukian, at the time the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, presented a The most high profile incorporation of the framewor...

Last updated on June 06, 2023 Infosys Limited, its subsidiaries and branch operations hereinafter referred as ‘Infosys’ ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ is committed to respect your privacy and choices. The privacy statement (hereinafter “Privacy Statement” or “Statement”) highlights our privacy practices regarding Personal Information that we collect and process in compliance to applicable data privacy regulations. Objective: Through this privacy statement we intend to provide a synopsis of our privacy practices regarding Personal Information that we collect and process about you through various sources. Although the primary focus of this statement is on the data collected and processed through our websites, that link to this Privacy Statement, which include www.infosys.com, www.infosysbpm.com and their sub-domains such as blogs.infosys.com, abm.infosys.com, etc. (Collectively referred to as “Infosys Websites”), our adherence to the below mentioned principles remain across the organization towards personal data processing. Depending on the purposes of processing and your relationship with us as a data subject, we may provide additional customized privacy statements, more information on which can be found below. The scope of this Statement covers the categories of personal data collected, how we use or process such data, who are the recipients of such data, and your associated rights under applicable laws including how to exercise the same. The applicability of the Privacy Statement is...

Email: Jeanette Ives Erickson is Senior Vice President for Patient Care and Chief Nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School, Visiting Scholar at Boston College, and Senior Associate at The Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership. She is a graduate of Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Portland, Maine; Westbrook College, Portland, Maine; and Boston University Graduate School of Nursing, Boston, Massachusetts. Ives Erickson is a member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and was elected to the AONE Nominations Committee for 2002-2003. She is the inaugural recipient of AONE’s Prism Award in 2003 for the impact she has made in creating a culturally-sensitive environment for patients and staff. She was awarded an inaugural fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Executive Nurse Fellows Program in 1998. Today she is a member of the National Advisory Committee, and a member of the RWJ Executive Nurse Leadership Board, the newly formed RWJ alumni association. Ives Erickson was one of fifty-five successful women featured in Dr. Sylvia Rimm’s New York Times Bestseller, How Jane Won, published in 2001. • Email: Sally Millar is presently Director of Patient Care Services Information Systems and the Office of Patient Advocacy at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also co-chair of the Partners Healthcare System Conf...