NIST Privacy Framework

From their site: &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.&quot;<p>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.

Does anyone really still trust these guys after the revelations of the last decade? Seems to me they had their fingers in a lot of pies.

This is from 2020

Regulatory capture sausage in the making?

I know we don&#x27;t have much choice but is this really safe?<p>The recent pentagon papers are nothing if not impressive of how deeply US intelligence is in just about every conversation that matters.<p>So can we trust NIST? As far as I know there have been concerns in the past that they have played ball and so have private security firms.<p>That said maybe a US backdoor is better than all round shoddy engineering?<p>I imagine something like this would be a great way to slip in a weak link.