Security News > 2020 > January > Data Privacy: Top trends to watch in 2020

SEE: Cheat sheet: Facebook Data Privacy Scandal Scott Matteson: How do policymakers and enterprises around the world view data privacy in 2020? What trends should we be looking out for? Rina Shainski: Our right to personal privacy, specifically our data privacy, has become an increasingly important issue, driven by the realization that the growing abundance of data doesn't "Shield" individuals anymore.

Privacy enhancing technologies represent a new, emerging category of technologies, and are increasingly being used to protect data privacy while enabling data use.

SEE: Is your data policy ready for California's new consumer privacy act? Scott Matteson: How does privacy differ between consumers and businesses? Rina Shainski: Consumers are often the owners and the source of private data.

SEE: Cisco study finds huge returns for companies investing in privacy Scott Matteson: How will privacy concerns and remedies be shaped in the future? Rina Shainski: The Age of Big Data is here, and converting data, including personal data, into economic value is fueling the emerging data economy.

I believe that privacy enhancing technologies will play an exceedingly important role in protecting data privacy while enabling the extraction of value from data through privacy-protected collaborations across ecosystems and data value-chains.

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