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December 20, 2024   
Health Law Weekly

A Privacy Christmas Story: 'Twas the Night of Santa's Privacy Problem

  • December 20, 2024
  • Lauren Wu
  • Alea Garbagnati , Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation
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This privacy Christmas story was born out of a paradox we found ourselves in as privacy professionals and parents. Santa is notoriously bad at privacy. This is an objective fact. So much about the beloved story of Santa Claus undermines the core tenets of privacy and data protection that we privacy practitioners espouse daily. And so, in our story, we reimagined and modernized Santa’s operations by bringing him up to date with privacy and data protection laws and helping him to discover privacy-by-design. As part of our efforts to assist Santa, we wanted to examine Santa’s previous privacy posture. To do so, a brief review of the most basic principles of privacy and data protection is in order.

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