With a highly contentious and unprecedented presidential election in full swing, and with more individuals voicing their opinions on social media, the lack of face-to-face interaction has made it easy for people to take extreme positions. “My fear is not for politics — we’ve always been a bit crazy in that area as a society — but that the ultra-polarization we’re seeing in the presidential election is actually running underneath the surface of our lives in many areas,” writes Stanley Crosley, CIPM, CIPP/US. “And, if we permit it to seep into our wonderful privacy profession, we could have disastrous results.” In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Crosley calls for a “clear-headed, frosty, dispassionate dialogue when we discuss privacy and data use,” and that now’s the time to begin “getting your ethical privacy and data use framework in place.”
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