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.
Implement the privacy principle of minimization using [Assignment: organization-defined processes].
NIST800-SA-8(33) · SA-8(33) Security and Privacy Engineering Principles | Minimization →Implement the privacy principle of minimisation by using only the PII necessary to perform system engineering.
fbi-cjis-security-policy::SA-8(33) · SA-8(33) Security and Privacy Engineering Principles | Minimization →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 →The organisation applies defined systems security and privacy engineering principles when specifying, designing, developing, implementing and modifying the system and its components.
canada-itsp-10-033-security-and-privacy-controls-and-assurance-activities-catalogue::SA-08 · SA-08 Security and privacy engineering principles →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 →Questions people ask about privacy engineering
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