Euro security agency says MORE crypto needed in gov policy
Governments need to build more privacy into legislation,technology vendors need to step up and compliance cops should crack down to push privacy-enhancing technologies out of the labs, says the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
The agency has issued a report, Privacy and Data Protection by Design - from policy to engineering, in which it says privacy technologies other than encryption receive little attention. The document goes on to make the case for increased privacy by detailing an inventory of technologies and strategies it says will enhance privacy, while also detailing challenges to their implementation.
"We observed that privacy and data protection features are, on the whole, ignored by traditional engineering approaches when implementing the desired functionality," the team said. "This ignorance is caused and supported by limitations of awareness and understanding of developers and data controllers as well as lacking tools to realise privacy by design.
