It's where you start, not where you end. Security involves issues like public key encryption, digital signatures, certification authorities and protocols that restrict access to information to authorized parties alone and protect the information transmitted. Allow me to share with you the definition of informational privacy. And, in the context of government, it also involves, the state's responsibility for data protection and safeguarding personal information in its custody or control. As I said before, privacy has become a mainstream issue - front row, center stage.
Privacy is also very much in vogue in Washington and in legislatures around the world.
Governments are actively seeking to find ways to protect the privacy of their citizens - a challenge which is growing with each new technological development. Little did we know when we first coined that term with the Netherlands Data Protection Authority in 1995, that the consideration of PETs would escalate to such proportions. It is obvious that businesses, technologists and government regulators all have an important role to play in developing ways to protect privacy. Privacy is now being viewed as the next major business imperative. The OECD guidelines formed the foundation for the Canadian Standards Association's Model Privacy Code, the federal government's Bill C-6 and Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act .