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Privacy Engineering Domains
This series provides an overview of some privacy engineering domains, highlighting key responsibilities, skills and organizational governance.
Last updated: July 2025
Privacy engineering is a critically important discipline in the privacy community. It involves applying systematic, scientific or methodological approaches to include privacy requirements in the design, development and operations of systems and services in various domains, including software development, system design, data science, physical architecture, process design, information technology infrastructure and human-computer interaction/user experience design.
These resources are intended to facilitate a deeper understanding of and collaboration within the increasingly important field of privacy engineering.
The first chart in the series defines privacy engineering and each subsequent chart gives an illustrative overview of some privacy engineering domains, highlighting key responsibilities, skills and organizational governance. The upcoming charts in the series are listed here.
This resource provides a broad definition of privacy engineering and highlights various domains in which privacy engineers can significantly impact the protection of privacy.
This resource focuses on IT infrastructure architects, whose responsibilities include developing IT infrastructure to ensure data flows between systems have data-use controls in place.
This resource focuses on software developers and engineers, who assist in ensuring software meets organizational compliance requirements and security objectives.
This resource focuses on data scientists, whose role includes turning data into valuable insights while maintaining strong privacy practices.
This resource focuses on UX designers in the privacy engineering domain, whose role includes creating user experiences that are intuitive, accessible, empowering, and privacy-compliant.
Listed below are the upcoming charts to be published in this series.
- Physical Architect
- Process Design
- System Design