Travis Breaux, CIPT, Executive Editor

In today’s economy, personal information is becoming one of the world’s most valuable commodities. Yet, as technological innovations provide vast opportunities to collect, process and transfer this information, the associated privacy risks grow exponentially. Now, successful technology professionals must possess the knowledge and skills to safeguard personal data and support the privacy goals of their organization.

In An Introduction to Privacy for Technology Professionals, leading minds in the field address how privacy and technology intersect and examine critical areas of concern in the industry. This textbook provides key concepts and techniques to use throughout the entire data life cycle, including:

• The impact of privacy on engineering
•  Incorporating privacy into risk analyses
• The role of encryption and nonrepudiation in building solutions
•  Concepts of identifiability and anonymity
• The impact of privacy on tracking and surveillance
• Usable and useful privacy interfaces
• Concepts of interference and other privacy harms
• The roles and management of privacy governance
• The integration of security and privacy

An official textbook of the IAPP’s Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT®) program, this is an essential resource for developers, system administrators, data architects, UX designers, cybersecurity professionals, key business stakeholders and those in technology acquisition.

Contributing Authors:

• Lujo Bauer
• Chris Clifton
• Lorrie Faith Cranor, CIPT
• Simson L. Garfinkel, CIPP/US
• David Gordon
• David James Marcos, CIPM, CIPT
• Aaron Massey
• Florian Schaub, CIPP/US, CIPT
• Stuart S. Shapiro, CIPP/G, CIPP/US
• Manya Sleeper
• Blase Ur

An Introduction to Privacy for Technology Professionals is an official textbook of the CIPT Program.

(IAPP 2020, ISBN: 978-1-948771-90-0, pages: 436, softcover)