The Association for Computing Machinery’s US Public Policy Council (USACM) released a Statement on the Importance of Preserving Personal Privacy yesterday. USACM is advocating for privacy within emerging technologies, specifically Big Data and the Internet of Things. The organization hopes to “provide a basis for building data privacy into modern technological systems.”

The statement focuses on the following “Foundational Privacy Principles and Practices”:

Fairness

Transparency

Collection Limitation and Minimization

Individual Control

Data Integrity and Quality

Data Security

Data Retention and Disposal

Privacy Enhancement

Management and Accountability

Risk Management

The biggest take away from the ACM’s statement is that innovation does not need to come at the expense of user privacy. The statement encourages building systems that are private by design to improve them as a whole. If more companies kept this framework in mind, user information would certainly be more private, across all industries.

View the official statement here.