The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value

CHAPTER 11

Engineering Your Organization to Be Privacy Ready

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

—G. M. Trevelyan

This chapter provides a methodology for assessing and implementing privacy awareness and readiness in the enterprise as a whole. It also discusses the privacy roles and responsibilities typically found in nonengineering groups throughout the enterprise and their contribution to an organization’s privacy awareness and readiness.

Some may think the term engineering cannot cover organizational structure, input, and expected output. Nonetheless, an organization, like a series of hardware and software ...