With increased calls for Privacy by Design and the need to build privacy-preserving code into technologies, building a bridge between policy and coding can be a difficult endeavor, but, writes HERE Privacy Officer Ian Oliver, “We cannot keep addressing privacy from a top-down, legally driven perspective.” Software and application development is hugely complex, he notes, and coding for terms such as “reasonable” often do not make sense to technologists. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Oliver discusses some ways of addressing the gap between privacy lawyers and software engineers, particularly by developing a lingua franca between the professions.
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