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Privacy and Data Governance

May 7th, 2008

At the recent data governance executive briefings that I participated in with Scott Gidley from DataFlux, one of the examples that came up in conversation regarding data governance was that of data privacy. Protection of personal information provides a great example fro discussing data governance because it covers the main issues:

  • The existence of a business policy that is well-defined and is presented to the participants (i.e., the customer/user constituency)
  • A high degree of impact occurs should the policy be violated
  • Potential regulatory constraints and consequences for non-observance
  • A risk that the absence of governance will lead to the impact
  • A requirement for external audit
  • Poorly-worded jargon that implies information policies and business data rules

We will be looking more at where privacy issues imply the need for data governance, and I will summarize soon… Meanwhile, email me or post your own experiences? Thanks!

One Response to “Privacy and Data Governance”

  1. Bob Barker said: May 9th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Just wanted to underscore that concern. We post a lot about a related issue, i.e. achieving the right balance between privacy and security concerns. As Usual, the right answer to the question is “both” but the trick is in the execution.

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