Privacy is becoming an important
element in gaining a strategic
business advantage. Privacy-friendly
practices enhance customer loyalty
and are the underpinnings of
consumer acceptance of electronic
commerce. Of equal importance to
business decision making are the
requirements of the various
legislated privacy codes that apply
to the public and private sectors,
and the voluntary privacy codes to
which some industry sectors
subscribe. Conformance with these
laws and codes is important to avoid
a crisis in consumer confidence or
violation of federal or provincial
statutes.
This management consulting practice
will perform privacy impact
assessments for new systems and
business initiatives, and provide
corporate privacy training and
conference seminars. General
consulting service offerings include
development of privacy requirements
for requests for proposals (RFP) and
vendor responses to RFP's, and
development of corporate and program
policy. We can provide resources to
access to information and privacy
offices to assist in the processing
of access requests or to investigate
alleged non-conformance with a
privacy code.
Privacy impact assessments are
emerging as an
internationally-recognized
analytical tool to determine whether
a program or system should be
implemented. Privacy impact
assessments may be viewed as
feasibility studies from a privacy
perspective. A feasibility study
assesses a system from a cost
recovery and technological
perspective. Similarly, a privacy
impact assessment determines whether
a system and related business
practices meet the requirements of
the privacy code, and attempts to
gauge consumer acceptance. The
return on investment can be
significant.
e-Privacy
Management Systems provides a
variety of services to assist
organizations with preparation of
privacy reviews for business program
and systems development, development
of policy and procedure, and
processing requests made under
provincial freedom of information
and federal access to information
legislation.
This is in addition to speaking at
seminars, conferences and workshops
for professional associations and
educational institutions. (Click on
the "Training & Conferences" link
for more information about this
service.)
Click on the links below for more
information about our services.