Design and Development of Policy Enforcement for the Privacy by Design Framework

Privacy by Design (PbD) is a set of guiding principles for providing stronger guarantees of privacy protection in systems that handle sensitive information. In this paper, we present the design and development of PbD constructs with a proof of concept prototype in Python, where data variables are tagged with information describing their privacy requirements while common methods are augmented with privacy requirement checking code. With these additions, we demonstrate how the task of writing Privacy by Design compliant code is greatly simplified.