Privacy Engineering: Not Just for Privacy Engineers

Explore privacy engineering from a data engineer's perspective in this 16-minute conference talk from USENIX Enigma 2019. Gain insights into Uber's collaborative approach between privacy and data teams to build privacy-protecting data retrieval systems. Learn about enforcing least privilege, data protection, and regulatory compliance through specific examples. Discover how Uber implements differential privacy, user roles, and query rewriting techniques. Understand the layered approach to privacy and the process of building trust between privacy and data teams. Benefit from practical strategies for integrating privacy principles into data infrastructure and engineering practices.

Intro
Who am I
Why should you listen
Data Environment
Data Infrastructure
Privacy Principles
Differential Privacy
User Roles
Example
Privacy using query rewriting
Layered approach to privacy
How the Privacy Engineering team convinced us
How the Privacy Engineering team trusted the data team
Summary