A Privacy Engineering Framework for the Internet of Things

Abstract

This paper describes a privacy engineering framework for the Internet of Things (IoT). It shows how existing work and research on IoT privacy and on privacy engineering can be integrated into a set of foundational concepts that will help practice privacy engineering in the IoT. These concepts include privacy engineering objectives, privacy protection properties, privacy engineering principles, elicitation of requirements for privacy and design of associated features. The resulting framework makes the key difference between privacy engineering for IoT systems targeting data controllers, data processors and associated integrators, and privacy engineering for IoT subsystems, targeting suppliers.