Preprocess before You Build: Introducing a Framework for Privacy Requirements Engineering

With the increased ubiquity of technology comes the challenge of addressing the privacy concerns of the intended users. Privacy is an extremely complex social phenomenon with myriads of variations. Difficulty in designing privacy-aware applications, however, do not stem from a lack of models or design frameworks. Rather, it stems from the gap between the two, the lack of guidance in eliciting privacy requirements. To address this issue, we introduce the Preprocess, a methodological framework for privacy requirements engineering, and demonstrate its power through an application example.