1 Privacy engineering: Why it’s needed, how to scale it

This chapter covers

  • What privacy means
  • How privacy is impacted by the flow of data through your tech stack and storage
  • Why privacy matters and how it affects your business
  • Clarity on privacy tooling, especially the “build vs. buy” debate
  • What this book does not do
  • How the role of engineers has changed in recent years

Over the last few years, privacy seems to have been front and center in the news. There is talk of new laws aimed at protecting customers from harm and reports of data breaches and fines being levied upon companies.

People at all levels of business are finding this unsettling, and understandably so. Many company founders are engineers or technologists; they are finding it ...

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