Defining Privacy Engineering

This resource is part of the IAPP's Privacy Engineering Domains series.

This resource, developed by the IAPP Privacy Engineering Section Advisory Board, provides a broad definition of privacy engineering and highlights various domains in which privacy engineers can significantly impact the protection of privacy.

Privacy engineering is the act of applying systematic, scientific or methodological approaches to include requirements for privacy* in the design, development, and operations of systems and services through various domains, such as software development, system design, data science, physical architecture, process design, information technology infrastructure and human-computer interaction/user experience design.

The privacy engineering domain examples and quotes within this resource are exemplary for work in each domain and are not representative definitions.