Cheat Sheet
Privacy by design
Protecting personal information can’t be an afterthought. Steve Cassidy explores how to put data privacy first
Privacy by design – sounds like a lot of expensive re-engineering?
In the context of legacy systems and processes it probably would be very costly to implement. “PbD”, as it’s familiarly known, isn’t a feature you can quickly tack on to an existing system. As the name implies, it’s a principle that’s baked in, not even at the point of development but at the whiteboard phase, before anyone has written a line of code. Originally developed by Dr Ann Cavoukian back in 1995, it’s become a global gold standard for systems design.
So it’s not something we can meaningfully act on right now?