Principles

Information Availability Principle

1. For as long as it has any business or statutory requirements to do so, government must be able to:

• use the information it owns/holds;
• provide access to its information to others, when they are entitled to access it.

Information Confidentiality and Integrity Principles

2. Government use of trusted computing and digital rights management technologies must not compromise the privacy rights accorded to individuals who use government systems, or about whom the government holds information.

3. The use of trusted computing and digital rights management technologies must not endanger the integrity of government-held information, or the privacy of personal information, by permitting information to enter or leave government systems, or be amended while within them, without prior government awareness and explicit consent.

System Security Principle

4. The security of government systems and information must not be undermined by use of trusted computing and digital rights management technologies.