There’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that privacy is in fact a meaningful driver of business value. Yet so often, whether within an early stage startup or significantly larger organisation, privacy is an afterthought. Privacy and Data Protection are too rarely ‘by design’.
We think about this a lot. In fact, making privacy and data protection meaningful to a broad group of stakeholders, particularly the individuals data relates to, has been a big part of our lives for years. Greater Than X was founded because we consistently experienced critical privacy, data protection, data ethics and digital trust failures in global markets. We wanted to help organisations overcome these critical gaps and become truly worthy of trust.
Over the past three years we’ve run programs all around the world. We’ve helped design more trustworthy information sharing ecosystems. We’ve helped organisations build out operational Data Ethics Frameworks. We’ve contributed significant value to the Legal and Contract Design movement through our Better Disclosure Toolkit.
But we always figured this services business would act as a learning engine. It would eventually give us the clarity and confidence to design an impactful proposition that scales.
Good news for us (and hopefully for you too) is that we’ve begun the transition towards this future state. We’ll publish more about it over the coming weeks.
This may go without saying, but a big part of our platform development workflow is thoughtfully considering how we design the most socially preferable ways to use data. This is a proactive effort that requires time, investment, tools and resources, and the benefit of plenty of experience.
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