Mastering the Art of Privacy Engineering

Eric Lybeck, Director of Privacy Engineering

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Books that were just recipes or knitting patterns were not very exciting, but when Julia Child appeared on television, she was exciting and inspired a lot of people to cook French food. Her books became best sellers. 

So it was with the early internet. The first websites were like static recipes or knitting patterns, and not very engaging. Once there was a community of cooks, pots and pans, food merchants, and eventually competing hospitality restaurant competitors. Things became interesting and lucrative for the community. 

These communities couldn’t exist and couldn’t find subject matter until Vint Cerf added standard addresses to websites and turned them into potential little interactive portals and even independent conglomerate companies. 

We’ve seen the same pattern of events with early efforts to apply technologies to the problems of privacy. Some thought their AI solutions were going to get us there to mark up the “data” and ML would automatically inventory and classify data. There just wasn’t enough context or change in time, and the context and actor could not be understood.

Then there are the solutions that scan the code, again looking for the magical context.

Code scanning, not working? You need to tag the code with the right context. 

With PrivacyCode, we have Privacy Objects, or Tasks. The task markup language allows us to do an analysis of the behaviors of the Task itself. The task is inherently a rule and the language may recognize who, why, where and when an operation is performed on the rule, in relation to the rule, or in combination with the rule.

In other words, context. 

The synergy among Tasks and Rules and Actors are correlated to business outcomes. How does your software engineering activities help you achieve your corporate goals? PrivacyCode provides the answer.

The AI standards bodies are all knitting very lovely patterns. As are the individual data protection compliance rules. PrivacyCode creates an interactive community that brings together lawyers, developers, and marketing folks – to make the unhappy, happy.

We have the platform and the swarm intelligence branch of AI has the right math. The future of PrivacyCode is irresistible.