Graham CoultEditor-in-chiefManaging Information magazinewww.managinginformation.comwww.aslib.com@ASLIB_info

ASLIB Annual Member Evening 2012: Giving Your Service The Edge

Privacy and Data Protection: Giving your service the edge

• What is Privacy and Data Protection?

• How has it evolved?

• How can it give your service the edge?

What are these terms

Privacy and Data

Protection?• Understand difference• Understand what they mean

for organisations

How has PDP evolved?• Driven by experiences in mainland

Europe in 1920s, 30s, and 40s with extremist regimes

• Emphasis on individual rights – the right to control use of ones own data

• The “right to be forgotten”• How practical are these ideals in the

modern world, and especially in context of Social Media?

• Other parts of world more market driven

• US – market driven, but also rights of individual.

• No overall binding international treaty

How can PDP give your service the edge?

• Risk management• Protecting reputational capital• Good service to care about customer, employee and stakeholder sensitive data• Become a knowledge centre and source of guidance

• Thank you for your time and attention• Happy to answer questions by email• If you would to write for Managing Information magazine

about your own service or area of expertise contact Graham Coult: gcoult@aslib.com

• For further information on ASLIB contact Holly Shukla: hshukla@aslib.com