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Volunteered Compliance

 Positive Privacy is the practice of reporting and advertising the good practices of those who harvest and use information in a commercial context. This policy reporting strategy is an activity aimed at balancing legislation and market regulation through reputation.  Practices aimed to achieve global market compliance in data protection and facilitate the use of mechanisms like Binding Corporate Rules.  Positive Privacy is a way of organising the emerging compliance marketplace in a reputation format which promotes information self-determination. 

 

Positive Privacy addresses the needs of the community, inviting a volunteered trust level, and opens up the discussion of consent.  Building a positive trust rating for entities similar to the negative credit rating found in global economics today will empower groups and individuals in the community at large. 

 

The laws addressing data protection, when applied effectively clearly protect human rights.  In a global marketplace this Identity Legal Framework will effect and help standardise information management practices.  The activity of bringing transparency and certification to the practises of Trusted Intermediaries will also support the development of the emerging market in rights. Positive Privacy provides a venue for reporting the 'good guys' thus rewarding the protection of fundamental human rights which span cultures, borders, and profit making mandates.

 

Latest Developments

In reaction to the legal compliance and requirements of data sharing, data portability, and international data transfer, there are new initiatives globally which involve a volunteered and binding level of compliance. 

 

A new solution which is growing in popularity-that of Binding Corporate Rules ("BCRS").

BCRS are rules developed by an organization and then approved by the data protection authority of a European country as being sufficient to ensure an adequate level of data protection.

 

Inspired by the international market place, Identity Trust CIC has developed the strategy of Positive Privacy.