Why do individuals, organizations, institutions, nations, or responsible agents work hard to preserve their personal and enterprise data, personnel information, trade secrets, intellectual properties, technical know-how, or national data, yet easily trade on the individual and enterprise data and national data of others?
To understand and answer the question appropriately, one must examine the underlying of the Information Privacy Realities Contradiction Theory (IPRCT), which is integral to (1) our natural unity of opposites, (2) our material dialectic mechanism or struggle of choosing from the opposites, and (3) the role of our self-interest in time and circumstance. Therefore, understanding the intricacies of the IPRCT would be instrumental to the proper and timely introduction of privacy requirements early in our system development lifecycle and in the development and enactment of information privacy policies, directives, guidance, and regulations around the world.
In this ISACA Podcast episode, Safia Kazi host Dr. Patrick Offor, Chief Warrant Officer Five Retired (CW5(R)); Associate Faculty, to discuss his recently released ISACA Journal article.
To read Dr. Offor’s full article, please visit https://www.isaca.org/resources/isaca-journal/issues/2022/volume-6/the-information-privacy-contradiction.
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