Embedding Privacy Into Design Through Software Developers: Challenges & Solutions

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of integrating privacy into software development by providing developers with usable tools and organizational support, addressing challenges and proposing solutions for effective privacy implementation.

Contribution

It introduces a framework for embedding privacy into software design by highlighting challenges and offering practical solutions for developers and stakeholders.

Findings

Developers need usable privacy tools.

Organizational support is crucial for privacy integration.

Proposed solutions improve privacy feature implementation.

Abstract

To make privacy a first-class citizen in software, we argue for equipping developers with usable tools, as well as providing support from organizations, educators, and regulators. We discuss the challenges with the successful integration of privacy features and propose solutions for stakeholders to help developers perform privacy-related tasks.