Privacy Engineering
What is Privacy Engineering?
The discipline of building privacy protections directly into systems and processes through technical design choices, privacy-enhancing technologies, and engineering practices.
Terms that appear alongside privacy engineering
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as privacy engineering. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 4 shared controls
- gdpr 4 shared controls
- privacy by design 3 shared controls
- sub processor 3 shared controls
- profiling 3 shared controls
- data minimisation 3 shared controls
- impact assessment 3 shared controls
- consent 3 shared controls
Frameworks that govern privacy engineering
What the standards actually require on privacy engineering
Requirements naming privacy engineering across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Section 34 of the Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 establishes Privacy by Design + Privacy by Default + and Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) requirements.
JM-DPA2020-Privacy-by-Design-Default-Sec34-Engineering-Data-Protection-Impact-Assessment-DPIA-Risk-Based · Jamaica DPA 2020 Privacy by Design + Privacy by Default + Section 34 + Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) + Risk-Based + High-Risk Processing + Prior Consultation + Privacy Engineering →Apply FedRAMP-defined systems security and privacy engineering principles in development.
SA-8 · Security and Privacy Engineering Principles →Apply FedRAMP-defined systems security and privacy engineering principles in development.
SA-8 · Security and Privacy Engineering Principles →Applies engineering principles to acquired and integrated components, not only to what is built in house.
161R1-SA-8 · Security and Privacy Engineering Principles →Requires organization-defined systems security and privacy engineering principles to be applied when specifying, designing, developing, implementing and modifying the system and its components, so that protection is designed in rather than added afterwards.
NIST800-SA-8 · Security and privacy engineering principles →Apply FedRAMP-defined systems security and privacy engineering principles in development.
SA-8 · Security and Privacy Engineering Principles →Questions people ask about privacy engineering
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