The Data Privacy Ethics Foundation was started by a group of College Students who had concerns on the validity of data privacy.
the purpose of the foundation is to bring back privacy to the user and consumer and hold companies and governments accountable for data privacy breaches with this three step program idea.
Data Ethics Program
First Step
Is to inform the customer or the user, keeping the user ignorant is the reason why people are not concerned with their data being tampered with but if users knew how deadly or much private data is being used against them whether that’s from social media companies or from the government they would push back on allowing apps or other things to take data from them
The Second Step
The next step is to outline and show companies past and current who are using private data for their own selfish reasons or even if a company is not using data for their own selfish reasons they may not be capable of properly handling data and that may leave end users at risk and what happened or what is currently happening with those situations such as what happened with Sony Playstation in 2011 with the major data breach where hackers shut down their network for twenty days and all of the Playstation accounts data were exposed. In situations like those we implement some third party service to make sure data protection standards are up to par.
The Third Step
The third step would be to have standards be prioritizing data and data privacy to have that be the main focus of the program.
Implementation
The implementation would need to be government funded across the whole world since data is now sent across the globe in a matter of seconds and companies have different entities in different countries this would need to be a global project that all companies would need to buy into
It would first have to be the united states since that is a pinnacle of data and intelligence and then all the other countries would have a domino effect and we would also need big corporations to also buy in
But before we could get corporations and governments we would have to influence and persuade individuals that giving up your data privacy is not a good thing and you should be protecting your data.
Implementing these steps would be hard to but the easiest way is to educate the users about data ethics and why it wrong that companies are profiting off your data especially when you are getting no monetary compensation for it
Timeline of Project
The Timeline of this project could take twenty to thirty years based on getting approval from governments but a realistic timeline would take about one hundred years this is mostly based on resistance from governments and corporations. This timeline will take so long because we basically have to undo what has already been done
