6th CACR Information Security Workshop
1st Annual Privacy and Security Workshop

Speaker
Peter J. Hope-Tindall, dataprivacy Partners Ltd.

Title
The Emerging Role of the Privacy Architect - A Biometric View

Abstract
In the last decade, privacy emerged as an important public issue, in part due to the explosive growth of the Internet. Pirvacy and data protection laws were enacted in much of the developed world and some included serious financial and social sanctions for non-compliance. Prominent corporations suffered front page privacy melt-downs with resultant public relations disasters, consumer boycotts and lost revenue. Government introduced electronic service delivery for everything from drivers licenses to health cards, hoping to streamline processes save costs and reduce fraud. Many learned that privacy concerns were so difficult to address, both politically and technically, that they abandoned their efforts.

Enter the Privacy Architect, whose repertoire may include computer security, database design, systems architecture and analysis, cryptography, biometrics, risk analysis, systems assurance, media relations, public policy and the law...not to mention a little Cirque du Soleil. A multi- disciplinary professional, he or she is tasked not only with helping to ensure privacy, but also with explaining it and sometimes defining it.

The Emerging Role of the Privacy Architect - A Biometric View describes:

• what a privacy architect does;
• the technical challenges that make achieving true privacy so difficult;
• some privacy enhancing tools and techniques;
• the use of biometrics in privacy protection, and
• the real world difficulties faced by those whose job it is to help ensure privacy.