If you’ve ever wondered about the relationship between privacy and apples, privacy expert J. Trevor Hughes explained the connection during a session at the (ISC)² SECURE North America one-day virtual event.
“Privacy is a fundamental human truth,” he said. “It has existed since the dawn of time.” In fact, he said, privacy concerns started after Adam and Eve committed the crime that got them expelled from the Garden of Eden. They ate an apple they weren’t supposed to.
Since then, privacy perceptions and concerns have evolved as new threats in the form of new technologies – flexible film, the telephone and the smartphone – have emerged. Technology, he says, mediates privacy. Along the way, we’ve had to adjust and find ways to protect privacy.
“Privacy is an eternal negotiation,” said Hughes, who serves as President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Privacy concerns, often overstated by the media, have always existed, he said. What’s different today is the speed of change brought on by technology and the risks to privacy created by change. The rate of change has exceeded the capacity to address the issue, he said.
Still, Hughes expressed optimism in a new piece of legislation under consideration by the U.S. Congress, the American Data Protection Privacy Act, which would restrict the use of private data by organizations operating in the U.S.
Using works of art such as Michaelangelo’s David and Peter de Hooch’s painting of a mother delousing her child, Hughes explained that privacy involves physical, spatial and emotional dimensions. It ..
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