Privacy by Design through certification and standards
Independent Consultant Ralph O’Brien discusses developments with certifications that publicly recognise good practice and help companies to demonstrate Privacy by Design.
I’ve always been a huge fan of certification – the ability to be independently assessed and approved that your product, services or organisation meet a certain level of conformance, or meet a certain standard.
Certification can be a wonderful validation that a company is doing something right. But the certification market can be confusing and hard to interpret at times. Different certifications apply to different aspects of a company’s operation. The menagerie of players (certification bodies, assurance assessors, scheme owners) can be mind-numbing.
I am involved in this work through the Institute of Operational Privacy by Design (IOPD), which is a not-for-profit set up in the US(1), but operating globally to create standards and certifications. The IOPD is a membership-based professional organisation primarily run by a Board of Directors consisting of eight volunteers. It tries to untangle the mess created by various different actors and find its own role in this vast and complex ecosystem.
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