Methods for Designing Privacy Aware Information Systems: A Review

A major challenge in the field of software engineering is to make users trust the software that they use in their everyday professional or recreational activities. Trusting software depends on various elements, one of which is the protection of user privacy. Protecting privacy is about complying with user´s desires when it comes to handling personal information. It can also be defined as the right to determine when, how and to what extend information about them is communicated to others. The aim of this paper is to bring forward the modern practices for ensuring privacy during the design of information systems. To this end, it provides an overview of recent requirements engineering approaches which focus on the elicitation and management of privacy requirements. Comparative analysis of these approaches based on a systematic framework reflects on current research trends as well as open issues that provide a foundation for further research.