Recently, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario released a report entitled: Privacy and the Digital Rights Management (DRM): An Oxymoron? The report details the advent of DRM and discusses how DRM has evolved. In particular, the report examines the effect of DRM on privacy and provides a seven step procedure that DRM developers can follow to ensure that DRM technology does not adversely affect consumers privacy rights. These steps include:
  • defining and communicating the privacy expectation to the public,
  • developing privacy policies and principles,
  • assessing human and information resources,
  • conducting a threat risk assessment by completing a Privacy Impact Assessment,
  • setting up methodology for privacy risk management at the system level,
  • introducing rules and controls deployed in privacy risk management, and
  • deploying and auditing review expectations and requirements.
The report also offers privacy protection tips for consumers. For a copy of the report, visit: http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/pubpres/papers/drm.htm

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