Question

Explain why the OECD privacy principles are an effective way to assess ethical handling of data from an IT professional perspective.

Answer 1

The OECD privacy principles are an effective and ethical way of handling the data from an IT professional perspective.

The eight principles of OECD privacy guidelines are as below which makes it the most acknowledged practice of IT data security.

1. Data Collection Limitation, not everyone and from everywhere can collect the data.
2. Quality of DATA, only data from reliable sources are obtained.
3. Purpose Specification for access and collection of data which need to be documented.
4. Use Limitation, under this principle user and uses of data is predefined and limited.
5. Security Safeguards: All the data are well protected and no compromise on data security and its maintenance.
6. Openness of process and eligibility of data access is one of the very important aspect
7. Individual Participation: Participation and access is given to individual basis and their role in organization.
8. Accountability Principle: each user is made accountable for data security.

The above principles and its application in most of the organization makes it an effective way of handling the data and its security in the most ethical way.