Same Planet, Different Worlds: Getting IT and Privacy Teams to Work Together

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Presented at IAPP 2014 by

Leslie Lambert

Jonathan Fox

Phil Lee

Privacy professionals know what they want to achieve: Fair and proportionate data processing, no-longer-than-necessary storage of personal data and compliance with all applicable laws. But asking engineering teams to build systems that uphold these principles is often fraught with difficulty: How do you code “fair”? What on earth is a “proportionate” database? And what does “necessary length of time” mean in days and weeks? Engineers like specificity, with precise functional and non-functional requirements and associated testing, and both teams are essential to an organization's overall privacy compliance. So how can they work together in a positive, productive way that achieves the organization’s mission and goals? Join us to explore the common challenges encountered when privacy and engineering teams work together, and hear effective strategies for overcoming these challenges. What you'll take away: · Why engineering privacy can be hard, and common miscommunications between privacy and engineering teams · How to achieve your organization’s privacy goals through more effective engagement of privacy and engineering teams · How to translate privacy requirements into engineering requirements that engineers can actually implement