Privacy engineering

Its focus lies in organizing and assessing methods to identify and tackle privacy concerns within the engineering of information systems.

In the rest of the world, the requirements change depending on local implementations of privacy and data protection laws.

Developers have to deliver quickly in order to minimize time to market and effort, and often will re-use existing components, despite their privacy flaws.

One area of concern is the proper definition and application of terms such as personal data, personally identifiable information, anonymisation and pseudo-anonymisation which lack sufficient and detailed enough meanings when applied to software, information systems and data sets.

Privacy is an area dominated by legal aspects but requires implementation using, ostensibly, engineering techniques, disciplines and skills.