Home Glossary Privacy Engineering Privacy Engineering The A-Z of Privacy Privacy Engineering: Privacy engineering is a term that refers to the methodologies, tools and techniques that can help manage sensitive data within an organization and provide acceptable levels of privacy. It’s an emerging discipline within software engineering. The goal of privacy engineering is to help businesses and other data-processing organizations derive value from their data while minimizing the risk that comes with analyzing, sharing, and querying sensitive information. Return to glossary