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It's Not Fish Ye're Buying, It's Men's LivesJune 30, 2009It's not fish ye're buying, it's men's lives. Scottish author and poet Sir Walter Scott is said to have uttered those words in reference (and reverence) to the toil and sacrifice made by commercial fishermen in an age when harvesting the ocean’s bounty was an even greater risk than portrayed by the popular television show Deadliest Catch.
The phrase came to mind recently while conducting interviews with a number of prominent privacy professionals for an article that will run in a future edition of the IAPP’s Privacy Advisor newsletter. Discussions centered on current economic, technological, and cultural influences on the roles privacy professionals play in their individual organizations.
Just as Sir Walter Scott acknowledged that the mundane purchase of a fish at market involved so much more than an exchange of money, so must today’s corporations acknowledge and address their stewardship of personally identifiable information.
Whether that information pertains to employees, customers, or prospects, it’s not data ye’re storing, it’s people’s lives.
Posted by Mike Spinney at 9:56 amAdd Comment (1 comments) Comments |
Nice post. Always felt gratified by my work in privacy helping clients understand this. Then you look at what's happening in Iran and you realize even more profoundly the effect privacy can have on lives and a society.