Applying Privacy Design Patterns

Overview

Privacy design patterns provide reusable architectural solutions for implementing data protection principles in system design. Jaap-Henk Hoepman's framework (2014, expanded in "Privacy Design Strategies: The Eight Strategies for GDPR Compliance") defines eight privacy design strategies organized into two categories: data-oriented strategies (minimize, hide, separate, abstract) that focus on the processing of personal data itself, and process-oriented strategies (inform, control, enforce, demonstrate) that focus on the organizational processes surrounding data processing.

These patterns directly implement GDPR Article 25(1) data protection by design and map to specific GDPR principles under Article 5.

The Eight Privacy Design Patterns

Data-Oriented Strategies

1. MINIMIZE

Principle: Limit the processing of personal data as much as possible.

GDPR mapping: Article 5(1)(c) data minimization, Article 25(2) by default.

Sub-patterns: