Serial Release, Privacy is a Spider, Shows How-To Recreate Privacy

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KIRKLAND, WA - Author and modern privacy advocate, Sheila Dean releases her first chapter in the downloadable How-To title series, Privacy is a Spider February 15, 2018.

Dean decided to publish the book as an independent serial release of downloadable content based on 3 criteria.

1.     To make content available, fitting a necessary personal relevance to readers, without buying the whole book.

2.     The ability to iterate prescriptive changes due to fast evolving legal and technical impacts to privacy and data protection.

3.     To self-fund the production of her fully authored work.

“One of the unique challenges of producing any book with currency in technology is to release a title that isn’t obsolete before it hits the shelves.  Consumer and civil privacy are experiencing chronic, war-like levels of hostility. In order to produce something relevant, [the process] required me to adopt prioritizing skills of a combat medic. You produce content so consumers can access the guidance they need to triage their own privacy,” said Dean, who spent years rewriting iterations of privacy mansuscript features.

 Privacy Is A Spider provides a holistic direction in its full form.  The complete guide aspires to help US readers prevent losses, create and recreate their privacy during and after a privacy incursion.  

“It’s very tough for consumers to watch privacy protections chronically invalidated and not know what to do. The public needs a program based on resilience, personal priorities and an ability to make a place for privacy in their lives. Hopefully that is what Privacy is a Spider delivers,” said Dean. 

Privacy, The Creative Act, the first featured chapter in the Privacy is a Spider serial will be available for purchase at, SheilaMDean.com for $2.00.  Dean’s aim is to sell enough relevant content for the book to pay for itself.  

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR -  Sheila is an active voice for more technical privacy provisions to improve the digital user experience. She hopes to optimize a new modern social discipline "to be more private". What started as a dedicated practice tour of the human rights and digital policy landscape, has landed on the edge of a technical self-leadership approach to reclaiming ownership of personal data.

 

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ADAPTATION: Adjusting your mental preferences for human choice

If you could buy online without compromising everything about yourself, would you opt for it?  If there was an acceptable data currency to spring into the data business, instead of yourself, would you work toward trading on the alternative currency? Choice and economic alternatives can also be invented for mutual benefit of companies and consumers.  It could all work out if we spent more time and energy on how to give privacy choice a chance.

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Businesses should assume more risk for privacy

Company privacy policy can do more for the future of businesses if they forge ahead on the curve of socially responsible consumer offerings.

So much of privacy practice centers on the case for threats: threat evaluation, legal risk mitigation and management, civil liability insurance in case of a breach and information security to ward off a breach. Everything orbiting company privacy policy seems to be on some sort of fire plan for businesses.  There are reasons for that.

Most businesses aren’t on the cultural advance towards privacy. They approach digital privacy primitively. They throw a stick at it. They try to make sure they don’t lose any business due to government rules.  The matter gets so complicated so quickly, many of them are inspired to delegate the whole matter to a lawyer. The lawyers hired do what is lawfully required of a business so they don’t get sued by consumers and sanctioned by the government. That doesn’t always pair with the interests of the consumer, left in the cold from data fire sales and 3rd party information marketing.

Contemporary governments serve double standards towards corporate privacy standards.  They are an opaque partner who wants exclusive views into business operations and their customers, often without a warrant.  Governments give themselves legal means to coerce a business to give clandestine access to consumers who trust them with their information. The lawfulness of government orders are subject to an ongoing debate.  Most businesses do not want to rock the boat, denying access requests from the government. So businesses have to balance what may be legal with whether government requests are socially responsible. 

Governments treating everyone like persons of interest, make little distinction between criminal & non-criminal for targeted surveillance. They approach the best and most productive companies in the US and the world to make demands that they insert surveillance capability to watch their customers. That’s not in the business plan for most businesses.  It’s certainly not in the interests of continuing business led by consumer trust.

Consumers have different needs now. What consumers are left with in privacy means are a totally unsatisfying and treacherous experience. Consumers face diverse privacy perils if they choose to adopt a new online service or work with businesses who really don’t have a socially responsible privacy practice.  They don’t owe anyone any business who will trade up their privacy for a more cushioning of their business.

Consumers are going to do what’s best for them.  They will look for companies with good intentions and great information security practices.  The relief experienced by a consumer who has the option of adopting privacy ware is immense. For instance, a mobile device company who offers a great User Interface is a good candidate for strategic partnerships with privacy ware developers and applications store offerings.  They have a department that invests in a great user experience. It’s not illegal to produce privacy ware and produce encryption. To sell it or offer it to privacy concerned consumers opens a new market.  So why not offer more privacy provisions to customers and pass along the costs to try something new?

On the cutting edge of privacy

Privacy led development can give businesses a new edge in markets who left consumer privacy behind.  You can find ways to make privacy applications more diverse, invest in practical research (like active penetration testing & hackathons), and produce an offering that so many companies need.  However, so many data driven businesses will never see that as an opportunity.  They only see a rival.

It may be that a business just has a generally nasty attitude towards privacy compliance due to internal conflicts with branches of their business model. Companies have competed for data sales since the 80’s as a buffer against harder times. Many have also settled in comfortably with close relations with governments, developing contracts for products and services to serve their needs.  Providing non-government customers with products that curtail government access is seen as a conflict of interest. These companies have in fact become combative with privacy advocates seeking better privacy service offerings to consumers.  After taking the hard road, it would be difficult for them to conceive of the pro-sumer privacy offering.  It may also be their saving grace, especially if businesses thrive on meaningful innovations.

Business edge is about giving the customer a competitive option.  They can go to a privacy shirking business to try to get their needs met or they can go to someone else who has a real offering for them.  

Businesses need an intelligent approach to privacy that works within the marketplace.  It begins with a brave internal audit for privacy practices to meet the standards of the pro-privacy consumer.  That means recruiting people who have the right networks to help organize research and business partnerships with vendors who tailor technology suites for your customer base.  Businesses who take bold, intrepid steps to develop an internal consumer practice, that if adopted in stages, will validate consumer trust and brand loyalty. 

It may be time to allow a new privacy policy to create your loyalty leaders for the future.

-Sheila Dean

For more information about privacy logistics and social responsibility planning, please contact me for an introductory consultancy meeting.