Extract from Isha Marathe’s article “IAPP Day 1: The Privacy Sector’s Most Entertaining Data Privacy Governance Metaphors”
Unlike a seatbelt in a car or that annoying squeeze-and-turn thing on prescription pill bottles—enhanced security measures around digital technology are not quite so tangible.
Their abstract nature is often a struggle for modern companies racing to be at the forefront of innovation by leveraging all the data at their disposal—and then having to slow their pace to check on the data security and privacy infrastructure that underpins their ambitions.
But that’s a problem.
Privacy regulators worldwide are less and less sympathetic to the tech hamster cage, and are cracking down on the data privacy gaps within organizations—slapping them with fines or reputational harm.
During the first day of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Governance Privacy Summit 2024 in Washington, D.C., regulators and privacy professionals discussed the key data governance and privacy trends on their minds in the age of powerful technologies like generative artificial intelligence and biometric screening.
Below are four of the most entertaining analogies they used to bridge the chasm between privacy and regulatory legalese and the accessibility of inventive technologies, to pinpoint the needs of sound governance structures.
