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Jan/Feb 2020 - Edition 40
Technology
plays a big part
in adhering to
privacy stan-
dards.
Ensure
your
system
has
To be successful, any data re- technology with privacy fea-
tention policy must be consis- tures and controls.
tently applied, which requires
automatic handling rather than Also critical is intelligent de-
ployment of those devices – it
manually executed strategies.
makes little sense to have priva-
One way that backups can be cy-enhancing cameras if those
handled is by deleting data en- features are never enabled or
cryption keys once their lifes- avoided by existing protocols.
pan expires.
While this doesn’t physically
delete the expired data, it does
make all copies effectively
unreadable regardless of how
many there are or where they are
stored.
Privacy-enhancing security
What sorts of technologies are
we talking about?
Since privacy-enhancing tech-
nologies in modern security
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