The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value

by Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Jonathan Fox, Tom Finneran

"It's our thesis that privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution and that innovators who are emphasizing privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track." --The authors of The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto The Privacy Engineer's Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value is the first book of its kind, offering industry-proven solutions that go beyond mere theory and adding lucid perspectives on the challenges and opportunities raised with the emerging "personal" information economy. The authors, a uniquely skilled team of longtime industry experts, detail how you can build privacy into products, processes, applications, and systems. The book offers insight on translating the guiding light of OECD Privacy Guidelines, the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP) and Privacy by Design (PbD) into concrete concepts that organizations, software/hardware engineers, and system administrators/owners can understand and apply throughout the product or process life cycle—regardless of development methodology—from inception to retirement, including data deletion and destruction. In addition to providing practical methods to applying privacy engineering methodologies, the authors detail how to prepare and organize an enterprise or organization to support and manage products, process, systems, and applications that require personal information. The authors also address how to think about and assign value to the personal information assets being protected. Finally, the team of experts offers thoughts about the information revolution that has only just begun, and how we can live in a world of sensors and trillions of data points without losing our ethics or value(s)...and even have a little fun. The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto is designed to serve multiple Anyone who is involved in designing, developing, deploying and reviewing products, processes, applications, and systems that process personal information, including software/hardware engineers, technical program and product managers, support and sales engineers, system integrators, IT professionals, lawyers, and information privacy and security professionals. This book is a must-read for all practitioners in the personal information economy. Privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution; innovators who emphasize privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track. Foreword by Dr. Eric Bonabeau, PhD, Chairman, Icosystem, Inc. & Dean of Computational Sciences, Minerva Schools at KGI.

Genres: Technology

436 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 2014

Reviews

[Ian Oliver · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book takes the first major step to bridging the gap between high-level policy and software engineering. Such efforts in privacy are extremely welcome as its penetration into the software development process is minimal or ad hoc at best.

[Rebekah Mercer]

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book (I think cool applications of PETs in practice!) but it describes a policy and standards driven approach to satisfying privacy requirements when initially designing and developing apps and products.

It reviews the OECD privacy guidelines, data governance, and how to develop internal/project based privacy policies, with lots of information on exploring potential use cases of your product, making sure to consider all possible actors in the system, etc. It helped me realise that privacy engineers can have lots of project manager-like responsibilities :)

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[Stephen Muiruri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read too.

I love the Author's take on the subject matter. The amount of concerns all cultures have for privacy is indeed immense.

[Cigdem · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book greatly informative - it is written with a candid style, and also bringing humour to the subject, full of practical advice, and interesting use cases.

[Jordan Mazur · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction with lots of helpful checklists and easy-to-borrow concepts.