Privacy by design

Privacy by design is a framework for systems engineering that builds privacy considerations into the entire engineering process rather than adding them afterward, an example of value sensitive design. Ann Cavoukian, then Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, developed the approach, working with the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research from 1995, publishing the formal framework in 2009, and the International Assembly of Privacy Commissioners and Data Protection Authorities adopted it as a standard in 2010. It rests on seven principles: being proactive rather than remedial, protecting personal data by default without requiring user action, embedding privacy into the core design and functionality of a system, seeking positive sum outcomes that achieve privacy alongside other goals such as security, protecting data across its full lifecycle from collection to destruction, keeping operations transparent and visible to users and providers, and remaining user centric by prioritizing individual interests through strong defaults. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/