{"title":"An Analysis of Stack Exchange Questions: Identifying Challenges in Software Design and Development with a Focus on Data Privacy and Data Protection","authors":"Andreas Diepenbrock, Jonas Fleck, S. Sachweh","doi":"10.1145/3600160.3605465","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Data privacy and protection are essential in today’s digital landscape, with software developers’ playing a critical role in addressing these challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive study of the challenges and issues faced by software developers’ in the context of data privacy and protection. Our analysis is based on a dataset of questions posted on popular online platforms, such as Stack Overflow, Information Security Stack Exchange, and Software Engineering Stack Exchange. Our findings reveal a range of challenges, including the design and generation of privacy policies, compliance with legal frameworks, and implementation of privacy-preserving features in software systems. We also observed interest in policy-related questions and confusion between data privacy concepts and programming language access control mechanisms. Based on our findings, we provide recommendations to address these challenges and promote privacy-by-design principles in software development.","PeriodicalId":107145,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3600160.3605465","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Data privacy and protection are essential in today’s digital landscape, with software developers’ playing a critical role in addressing these challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive study of the challenges and issues faced by software developers’ in the context of data privacy and protection. Our analysis is based on a dataset of questions posted on popular online platforms, such as Stack Overflow, Information Security Stack Exchange, and Software Engineering Stack Exchange. Our findings reveal a range of challenges, including the design and generation of privacy policies, compliance with legal frameworks, and implementation of privacy-preserving features in software systems. We also observed interest in policy-related questions and confusion between data privacy concepts and programming language access control mechanisms. Based on our findings, we provide recommendations to address these challenges and promote privacy-by-design principles in software development.