Privacy What Developers and IT Professionals Should Know

Conclusion

Diagramming the data that your application collects, stores, and transmits is a good way to visually validate the data during a review. It can also form the basis for the input to a privacy specification by providing a visual reference for the documentation. Dataflow diagrams are a good method to use to diagram your data. This same methodology is used to perform threat-modeling analyses to mitigate security issues. This helps to streamline privacy and security analyses by using a method that works for both.

Each feature team should diagram the data used by its application and document its findings in a feature specification. This process should eventually be rolled up into a single diagram that represents the data used by a component, ...