by Angela Guess

A recent press release reports, “IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), today announced the approval of IEEE P7002™, a new standards development project whose purpose is to provide one overall methodological approach that specifies practices to manage privacy issues within the systems/software engineering life cycle processes. Titled ‘Data Privacy Process,’ IEEE P7002 aims to define specific procedures, as well as provide diagrams and checklists, so that users of the standard can perform thorough and accurate conformity assessments of their specific privacy practices.”

Konstantinos Karachalios, managing director for IEEE-SA, commented, “With the continuing surge of big data growth, there is also a growing concern around how personal information is collected, managed and shared… With privacy and accessibility of individual information being an issue that’s relevant to a wide range of IEEE initiatives and committees, IEEE P7002 will help establish a framework for leveraging technologies to bring new products, services and applications to market that generate trust by ensuring end-users’ protected personal information is prioritized by design.”

The release adds, “The initiation of IEEE P7002 follows in line with the recent release of the IEEE publication Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, a document that encourages technologists to prioritize ethical considerations in the creation of autonomous and intelligent technologies. Both the document and IEEE P7002 are inspired by the work being done in The IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.”

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