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>
> You might be interested in this little story we are running in Masons DP
> magazine which has just gone to the printers.
>
> C
>
> Home page privacy statement generator.
>
> The OECD has produced a privacy statement generator which you can test
> drive. Basically the generator is an educational tool designed to help
> businesses create draft privacy policies; it uses information about "their
> data collecting habits" to produce a policy which can then be posted on
> their own Web site. The Generator is a beta version which has been placed
> online for a public testing period; after this period, it will be discussed
> at the next meeting of the Working Party on Information Security and Privacy
> and it is likely that a final version will be developed next year. Although
> the deadline has officially just passed the Generator is still available on
> the OECD Web site so that comments from the public can still be considered.
> The Generator is available on the site
> <http://www.oecd.org/scripts/PW/PWHome.ASP> together with notes on
> background information there as well as the tool itself. Any comments you
> have (e.g. is it a useful concept, or not) would be greatly appreciated by
> them; send them to <[log in to unmask]>.
>
> ENDS
>
> P.S. Has anyone got any interesting "data collecting habits" they wish to
> share
>
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There is also a privacy polity generator on the US DMA's website at
www.the-dma.org.
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Charles A. Prescott
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and Government Affairs
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