[LINK] Security 'vs.' Privacy [Was Re: A security question

[Roger Clarke]

At 11:09 +1030 19/12/13, Janet Hawtin wrote:
>Where do security/privacy overlap?

Reject the 'you can have security or privacy - choose one' mythology.

It was created by national security extremists to get control of the agenda.

There are multiple alternative scope definitions, from data, via the 
organisation, external users, industry sectors, nations and society, 
up to the biosphere.

All are legitimate.  (If defined sensibly, and kept under democratic 
control, 'national security' included).

All have to be traded off against one another.  All powers and rights 
have to be subject to controls.

That applies to the security interests of individuals.  And it 
applies even more so to the interests of the very powerful, including 
and especially intel agencies.

http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/OECDS-1311.html
http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/WS-1301.html


If the question is 'how do privacy and *data* security overlap?', 
then the way I've always put it is that 'data security is about 
1/12th of privacy'.

That's intentionally glib (for radio and TV, and attention-grabbing).

It's justifiable on the basis that 'data security' is covered by just 
one of the c. 12 Principles that make up data privacy protection.


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