As engineers are increasingly tasked with Privacy by Design, they’d like privacy standards to start looking more like security standards. Perhaps it’s no surprise, though, that developing standards around privacy engineering, with privacy’s nebulous definitions of things like harm and personal information, is no easy task. That’s what stakeholders actively grasped Monday and Tuesday at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) second Privacy Engineering Workshop, collocated with the IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress in San Jose, CA, and meant to provide fodder for an eventual NIST report on privacy engineering. Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, reports on the workshop in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor.
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