Digital - Privacy Matrix may not allow too much Privacy

Times of India reports that in a world driven by data, notably in the digital format, culture and ethics must be at the heart of any debate on protecting a human's privacy, before seeing it as a technical or legal issue, said the participants at a creative forum here. Likening the current debate over data privacy and ethics to one on the uses of personal DNA in the 1990s, the participants at a meeting of Forum d'Avignon, a think tank on culture, said every individual has the right to have his personal data protected. "It is the responsibility of every state to enforce in an ethical framework, regulations in compliance with its culture. Our digital DNA, our privacy and cultural values deserve this ethical dynamics," the forum said after its 7th global meeting this month.

I suppose every person will have a unique digital DNA which should be protected from prying eyes. But that may not be possible in this age of digital data. The Digital - Privacy Matrix may not allow too much Privacy.

DigitalAsian