Free PDF download: Privacy by Design – Step by step

As developers grapple with the challenges of building systems, particularly complex ones, security – and privacy – are often overlooked. Paired with time pressures, this can result in mistakes and oversights, leading to bugs and vulnerabilities.

Data privacy by design is an approach in which you consider and integrate data privacy and protection from the earliest stages of a project, and maintain them for the duration of the project’s lifecycle. The steps you take, typically in the form of risk-appropriate technical and organisational measures, should ensure that data privacy and protection become part of business as usual.

The concept of privacy by design is not new, but has attracted more attention in recent years as it is mandated by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

This paper discusses:

• What privacy by design is;
• The seven foundational principles of privacy by design; and
• An eight-step approach to implementing privacy by design.

Published: December 2020
Keywords: Privacy by design, data privacy, GDPR