The purpose of the Privacy and Online Rights chapter is to introduce system designers to the concepts and technologies that are used to engineer systems that inherently protect users’ privacy. We aim to provide designers with the ability to identify privacy problems, to describe them from a technical perspective, and to select adequate technologies to eliminate, or at least, mitigate these problems.

We speak with CyBOK Privacy and Online Rights Knowledge Area author Carmela Troncoso for an introductory overview of the topic.