Background
In 2004, Nymity, a global privacy and data protection research firm, recognized that traditional approaches to implementing privacy often placed constraints on organizations’ business practices. Nymity initiated a research project with the objective of creating an approach to privacy compliance which would enable business to prosper while advancing privacy. Multiple approaches were developed and tested1 and ultimately, a process was developed which enabled organizations to effectively build privacy into their business practices.
Aware of how Nymity’s research helped organizations build privacy into business practices, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, asked Nymity to make the process publicly available and to present it at the first, “Privacy by Design: The Definitive Workshop,” in Madrid, Spain, on November 2nd, 2009.
This jointly developed paper, Nymity and Dr. Ann Cavoukian, introduces Nymity’s Privacy Risk Optimization Process (PROP), a process that enables the implementation of privacy into operational policies and procedures, which results in Privacy by Design for business practices. |