My latest cartoon – on data minimization. Maryland’s privacy law incorporated a strong data minimization requirement, and future privacy regulation might follow suit. For more about data minimization, see Jordan Francis’s terrific article, Data Minimization’s Substantive Turn: Key Questions and Operational Challenges Posed by New State Privacy Legislation.
UPDATE: I recently posted my new paper Meaningful Data Minimization (with Professor Woodrow Hartzog). Data minimization is the key to the success of privacy laws. Why is it working so badly? This paper discusses why data minimization is one of the most essential protections in privacy laws and how to make it work effectively.
You can download it here for free. We welcome your feedback.
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Professor Daniel J. Solove is a law professor at George Washington University Law School. Through his company, TeachPrivacy, he has created the largest library of computer-based privacy and data security training, with more than 180 courses.
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This is a short data minimization training course (5 min). It covers the key privacy principle of data minimization, which is required in many privacy laws. The course discusses why data minimization is important and how to implement it in practice – in data collection, processing, transfers, and retention. The course has 2 quiz questions.
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