Multidimensional and evolving
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Privacy is a multi-dimensional concept.
- In many cases, the right to privacy is linked to the basic human right, which happens to vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
- As the result, ISO style short "definition" would not do justice.
Instead, WG 5 recommends utilizing the framework approach to respect privacy.
- The current framework is documented in ISO/IEC 29100 Privacy Framework.
- in the privacy field/sector, personal data / PII protection is more related to the means, whereas privacy is more related to the goal
we do not protection PII for the pleasure of protection data, we protect them where there can be risks on privacy ; and we don't protect privacy as a whole, but only when PII are involved.
Evolving consept
- Might need a definition that is usefull for 30 years.
- counterproductive for the group to produce and codify a definition that then becomes inflexible and hard to adapt to changing circumstances and new technology.
- best strategy is to reduce it to the bare essentials, and to leave definition of the more contextual aspects to documents other than the definition.
- Some languages do not actually have a word for privacy.