Hi !
We have previously discussed our communication strategy in the national DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment) project. In short, it can be summarized as: "No surprises!".
This means that if you follow what we do, e.g., through this newsletter, our LinkedIn Live events, or what we publish, you should not be surprised by any of our conclusions or the final DPIA.
We achieve this by being open and keeping you informed about things we decide on an ongoing basis.
This also means that we publish things as we complete them. And so, this newsletter is about how these products are not final products ; we will continue to adjust them based on your feedback.
The challenge of creating something everyone can use when we are really highly professionals
The main goal of the national DPIA is that you, as a municipality and school owner, can use what we create. Put another way, what we create in this project should make your job with privacy and information security easier.
For example, you should be able to take our record of processing and use it as a basis when you create your own record of processing for the core services in Google Workspace for Education.
To achieve this goal, we must create things that actually can use. And even though us making these things are highly skilled professionals, we can't think of everything. And we even have some blind spots or things we just don't see anymore, maybe precisely because we have worked with privacy and information security for such a long time.
This is something we believe is a general challenge for experts: it can be difficult for us to understand what you, who don't think about privacy 24/7, think is challenging.
And this is something we try to control for in the project by publishing what we complete on an ongoing basis so that we can adjust along the way.
We publish products that are not 100% in their final version because we want your feedback
So, we publish things that are not 100% finished or in their final version. Or, put more precisely, we publish things that we want your feedback on, and that is the reason these products are not in their final version.
Every questions you have about what we have made, is valuable feedback. This is because if you ask a question, it's likely that others are wondering the same thing. It may mean that we have been unclear or that what we have made does not meet you as the municipalityâs need, and then we need to adjust!
We also want to emphasize that no feedback is too small. We have had discussions internally about how we can best refer to sources - should we use footnotes? Should we refer to legal text? How many references is enough to be clarifying and how many is too many, so they become alienating? How much of the legal text should we explain?
What we have published in Norwegian so far
đą Proposal for a processing protocol for core services in Google Workspace for Education
đą Guide on how to capture changes in Google Workspace for Education (change management)
đą Proposal for the rationale for processing basis in Google Workspace for Education
If you haven't done so, take a look and tell us what it's like to use these!
I wish you a wonderful, privacy-friendly week-end!
Best regards,
Ida Thorsrud
Project manager national DPIA
This newsletter was translated from Norwegian to English with assistance from ChatGPT by OpenAI. While it guided our translation, we made independent editorial choices. Any discrepancies result from this combined approach.