Privacy-as-Public-Affairs is more than narrative shaping for media
Privacy has to be a meaningful and within true reach of its seeker.
I appreciate the delicate balances companies must tread when it comes to ways they convey privacy. If a company is seeking give its privacy representation a face-lift, there’s an agency for that. If a company is actually producing live privacy amenities, there’s a product group release team for that.
However, can you move soberly among consumers and advocates when your operations towards consumer data collection, notice and third party consent exchange never actually changed?
Companies do need PR workers to come to the fore to help improve and market public offerings appropriately. Companies also need to do more than make a cosmetic mount for hostile consumer policy. Maybe that requires a whole new set of technical appropriations for privacy, allowing consumers access to their records and making good on deletion requests. Maybe it just means a change of heart; which directly precipitates actions to move consumer protections into a more respectable position for the long run.
As a blogger, I can be a projection platform for submissions from companies, social responsibility professionals, ethics & legal fellows and public voices who made connections and inroads for positive progress for privacy innovations in business.
If you have news about your company’s privacy amenities, a new civic privacy partnership or a pro-sumer privacy initiative, I might be interested in featuring your work on this blog under the heading Real Privacy.
Please contact me for news or interview features at my contact page.
If it’s real privacy, we really need to hear from you.