Organizations struggle to comply with legal requirements as well as customers'
calls for better
data protection. On the implementation level, incorporation of privacy protections in products
and services depends on the commitment of the engineers who design them. We interviewed six
senior engineers, who work for globally leading IT corporations and research institutions, to inves-
tigate their motivation and ability to comply with privacy regulations. Our findings point to a lack
of perceived responsibility, control, autonomy, and frustrations with interactions with the legal
world. While we increasingly call on engineers to go beyond functional requirements and be
responsive to human values in our increasingly technological society, we may be facing the
dilemma of asking engineers to live up to a challenge they are currently not ready to embrace.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:6695 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Bednar, Kathrin, Spiekermann, Sarah, Langheinrich, Marc |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Relation | https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2019.1583296, https://taylorandfrancis.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/6695/ |
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