Chapter 12: Protection Of Privacy From Conception Or Privacy By Design

“Protection of privacy from conception” is not only a widely misleading term, but how to ensure that suppliers truly comply with the principles set forth by this term is a difficult undertaking and it requires a nexus of actions.

For a long time, we were witnessing a ‘patch culture’. That is an attitude that companies have known for many years and which forces them to spend more time maintaining their information systems than launching new projects. The practice has become so commonplace that CIOs wait several months or even years after the launch of a new solution to start operating it, until the relevant supplier has made the necessary adjustments to deploy the new offering. The cloud, however, is about to bring changes to this situation.