Privacy by Design is a concept that is virally spreading around the globe. The powerful concept of engineering privacy directly into the design of new technologies, business practices and networked infrastructure, in order to achieve the doubly-enabled pairing of functionality and privacy, has gained significant adoption by governments, researchers and industry, in any number of sectors. Now that the PbD paradigm has achieved this high level of acceptance, the next major question to be addressed is – how can PbD best be operationalized?
In this guidance document, we focus on the solutions presented by the panellists – in particular, the parties to which responsibility for the implementation of each were assigned. Distinct trends were noted in the types of solution associated with each party, and it became clear that the panellists’ responses could be collected into a practical tool for developers, service providers and users – a Roadmap for Privacy by Design.
Here, we begin by describing the necessity for such a tool in the mobile industry, and then detail the Roadmap, which begins with the Device Manufacturer, travels through the OS/Platform Developer, Service Provider, and Application Developer, and ends with the responsibilities assigned to Users themselves.
