A recent report from Facebook, “A New Paradigm for Personal Data,” examines ways that organizations can innovate with the use of data while still protecting consumer privacy. It is the result of dozens of interviews and roundtables across the globe. Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Stephen Deadman says in the introduction that, “The personal data debate has been largely grounded in a limiting premise – that the desire to innovate with data is generally incompatible with preserving individuals’ rights to privacy and self-determination. This premise is entrenched by regulators, policymakers and industry, as we tend to talk in terms of trade-offs, as though these two equally desirable goals will always be in tension with each other, and our only choice is to balance them off against each other.” Deadman and the body of the report argue that “such trade-off thinking” actually “leads to suboptimal outcomes” because “we now have the skills, technology and motivation to transcend this supposed trade-off.”
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