Privacy by Design and Isaac Newton: the need to address Newton’s Third Law
I have just come from a morning session on Privacy by Design (PbD) where the ideas, first presented by Dr Ann Cavoukian in 1995, are set to become tomorrow’s data protection orthodoxy (if the Regulation sees the light of day). The session started with a quotation from Newton, ostensible made when he published his ground breaking Principia in 1687: “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”. In the context of PbD, I immediately




