What are Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)?
What does PETs mean?
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) are technologies that embody fundamental data protection principles by minimizing personal data use, maximizing data security, and empowering individuals.
A useful definition from the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) refers to PETs as:
‘software and hardware solutions, ie systems encompassing technical processes, methods or knowledge to achieve specific privacy or data protection functionality or to protect against risks of privacy of an individual or a group of natural persons.’
PETs link closely to the concept of privacy by design, and therefore apply to the technical measures you can put in place. They are also a means of implementing data protection by design within an organization on a technical level.
Examples of PETs
Examples of PETs include the following:
- Pseudonymization: A data management and de-identification procedure by which fields containing information that enables the identification of an individual (identifiers) are…
