Roadmap: Data Privacy Engineering

A host of companies are emerging that allow companies to more ethically and responsibly leverage personal data.

There is a practice in privacy engineering known as ‘minimization’, which involves thinking through what is the minimum customer data set a company must collect. It’s considered a best practice; however, most companies are product and engineering driven and engineers tend to keep as much data as they can.

Big Tech and even legacy enterprises are becoming saddled with privacy debt.

While many tech companies were architected to collect data, they were not necessarily architected to safely store data. Today there’s not just a rift, but a chasm between where data privacy technology, processes, and regulations should be and where they are, thus creating massive amounts of “privacy debt.”