In May, BSI Group, the national standards body for the U.K., held its most recent workshop looking at the development of standards around the use of big data. Privacy pros may find the group’s work particularly relevant as BSI approaches guidance, in particular, for the terms and conditions organizations would use to obtain and use data, as well as a code of practice for the ethical use of data. For the former, there is now a draft standard scope that will be working its way through the BSI processes for creating guidance, which would then be worked into a specification once there is acceptance of the guidance’s approach. For the latter, the ethical use of data, BSI is actively looking for volunteer contributors to build out the scope so that it can begin to move toward a code of practice. IAPP Content Director Sam Pfeifle reports on this initiative for The Privacy Advisor. 
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