Privacy engineering

Privacy engineering is an emerging discipline within, at least, the software or information system domain which aims to provide methodologies, tools, and techniques such that the engineered systems provide acceptable levels of privacy. In the UK acceptable level of privacy is defined in terms of compliance to the functional and non-functional requirements set out through a privacy policy, which is a contractual artefact displaying the data controlling entities compliance to legislation such as Fair Information Practices, health record security regulation and other privacy laws.