You might be interested in this initiative by Google, which is meant to make a call for Global Privacy Standards. An article by Jeremy Kirk provides an overview:
“Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy to address growing concerns over how personal data is handled across the Internet.
Google's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, will make the proposal at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Strasbourg, France, dealing with the intersection of technology with human rights and ethics. Fleischer's 30-minute presentation will advocate that regulators, international organizations, and private companies increase dialog on privacy issues with a goal to create a unified standard.
Google envisions the policy to be a product of self-regulation by companies, improved laws, and possible new ones, according to a Google spokesman based in London. …”
I believe this is going to be a huge challenge, considering the different cultural approaches to privacy and ways to deal with it (just look at how US and EU have a different interpretation and approach to the concept of privacy …). It would also be interesting to see how the voice of consumers and citizens is going to be factored in.
More details and thoughts about this initiative can be found in a post by Peter Fleischer.
--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---
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