Rapport Commissie Brouwer: 'Gewoon doen' - Ngfg
Rapport Commissie Brouwer: 'Gewoon doen' - Ngfg
Rapport Commissie Brouwer: 'Gewoon doen' - Ngfg
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BIJLAGE 4: SUMMARY<br />
DO IT SIMPLY – SIMPLY DO IT,<br />
to protect security and privacy<br />
PROLOGUE<br />
This opinion relates to security and privacy. Security and privacy – the terms ‘personal life’,<br />
and ‘private life’ are used as synonyms – are increasingly interdependent, and in various<br />
situations, one is prerequisite for the other.<br />
Sometimes, the relationship between these two is strained. The central message of this<br />
opinion is that the challenge of seeking a balance between security and protection of privacy<br />
must be addressed simply. We cannot run away from this challenge. And what we mean by<br />
simply is: not trying frenetically to do justice to both interests as far as possible when we have<br />
a situation, but try to be relaxed. The opinion therefore presents a framework to serve as<br />
guidance.<br />
UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT<br />
A normal area of policy<br />
One of the key conclusions of this opinion is that the legal system has given virtually no<br />
guidance to those working on the ground about how to deal carefully with personal data for<br />
security purposes. Organisations where professionals are working on the security of persons<br />
have often left their professionals ill-equipped to put into practice the legal system for<br />
handling personal data. By ‘professionals’, the Committee means all those who carry out<br />
activities for the purpose of security. Some of them do this nearly all the time, such as the<br />
police, while others only do this as a subsidiary part of their job, such as staff working in<br />
mental health care or schools who sometimes observe security threats. Careful handling of<br />
privacy rules is not ingrained in the daily work of the organisations where these professionals<br />
are employed. The discussion about careful handling of personal data remains dominated by<br />
an almost exclusively legalistic approach. Starting out from this diagnosis, the Committee<br />
recommends treating the area where security and privacy meet as a normal policy area. That<br />
means a policy field in which considerations from different viewpoints are taken into account,<br />
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