<story><title>NIST Privacy Framework</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javier_e06</author><text>From their site:
&amp;quot;The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What is a voluntary tool? Beats me.
Who are the stakeholders? Beats me.
Help organizations to manage risk. What kind of risk? Whose privacy?
yadda yadda yadda.. Run on sentence.
My take away: NIST needs to hire writers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kalium</author><text>If I may attempt to offer a translation:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool&lt;p&gt;This is something that organizations can choose to use. We are a standards body, not a regulatory agency.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; developed in collaboration with stakeholders&lt;p&gt;We actually talked to people who need and use standards of this sort. We integrated their feedback.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk&lt;p&gt;The goal is to help organizations understand the chances they are taking with private data.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy&lt;p&gt;While still being able to actually make use of the data to accomplish goals that matter in some way.&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;Basically, this is completely comprehensible to most people and organizations who expect to be making use of this sort of standard. Like any technical document, it has a specialized vocabulary. It is not written for, and should not be judged by, the prose expectations of the general population.&lt;p&gt;NIST has writers. They are technical writers who are writing technical documentation intended for technical readers. We should calibrate our expectations accordingly.</text></comment>
<story><title>NIST Privacy Framework</title><url>https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>javier_e06</author><text>From their site:
&amp;quot;The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What is a voluntary tool? Beats me.
Who are the stakeholders? Beats me.
Help organizations to manage risk. What kind of risk? Whose privacy?
yadda yadda yadda.. Run on sentence.
My take away: NIST needs to hire writers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonogo</author><text>&amp;quot;Voluntary tool&amp;quot; means other federal agencies are not required to adopt it.  &amp;quot;Developed in collaboration with stakeholders&amp;quot; means this was not 100% internally developed at NIST.&lt;p&gt;The rest of your questions are answered in the FAQ.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not a run-on sentence; it&amp;#x27;s just a long one, and if you&amp;#x27;re looking for a way to ensure your users&amp;#x27; privacy while building a computer-oriented service, that executive summary tells you enough to decide whether this is something you want to further investigate.  Drive-by web forum commentators, in general, are not considered target audience for these documents.</text></comment>