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

“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 Manifesto: 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 stakeholders: 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.

What you’ll learn

•     What’s at stake as concerns data privacy become critical considerations for users, developers, and enterprise stakeholders
•     Comprehensive foundational understanding of the issues and how they are interconnected
•     What the emerging job description of “privacy engineer” means
•     Key development models for privacy architecture
•     How to assemble an engineering privacy tool box (including developing privacy use cases and requirements
•     Organizational design implications of privacy engineering
•     Quality Assurance (QA) methodologies for privacy policy compliance
•     Models for valuing data
•     The 10-point Manifesto of the Privacy Engineer

Who this book is for

The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto is designed to serve multiple stakeholders: 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.  A must read for all practitioners in the personal information economy.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Getting Your Head Around Privacy
Chapter 1: Technology Evolution and People
Chapter 2: Foundational Concepts and Frameworks
Chapter 3: Data and Privacy Governance Concepts

Part 2. The Privacy Engineering Proces
Chapter 4: Developing Privacy Policies
Chapter 5: Developing Privacy Requirements Use Cases
Chapter 6: A Privacy Engineering Life Cycle Methodology
Chapter 7: The Privacy Component App
Chapter 8: A Runner’s App
Chapter 9: Privacy Engineering Methodology Using Vacation Planner
Chapter 10: Privacy Engineering Quality Assurance and Privacy Impact Assessment

Part 3. Organizing for the Privacy Information Age
Chapter 11: Engineering Your Organization to Be Privacy Ready
Chapter 12: Organizational Design and Alignment

Part 4 – Where Do We Go from Here?
Chapter 13: Data Asset or Liability Value and Metrics
Chapter 14: A Vision for the Future: The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto
Chapter 15: Appendix A – Use Case Metadata