Developer Guidelines for Privacy Aware Mobile Apps

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This document outlines basic aspects of mobile apps which should be considered for writing mobile apps in order to build privacy protection into the apps.

We are convinced that privacy protection is an attractive feature and can attract addtional users. We aim on providing easy to implement privacy features without limiting the functions of your app.

Basic concepts of privacy problems and how to address them using privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) are combined with legal hints how you comply with data protection law, i.e. the new european data protection regulation.

The guideline is work in progress and written as part of the AppPETs project (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research). Contributions, feedback and discussion is welcomed.

Table of content

To get an overview of the developer guidelines document have a look at the

• Introduction

The Guideline is structured in Phases of the Application development lifecycle

• PlanningPhase.md

• AnalysisPhase.md

• DesignPhase.md

• ImplementationPhase.md

• TestingPhase.md

• MaintenancePhase.md

Contribution

Places of Interest:

• Reading / Link for sharing: https://blochberger.gitbooks.io/developer-guidelines
• Issues/Discussions: https://www.gitbook.com/book/blochberger/developer-guidelines/discussions
  • [move to apppets repository?]
• Github repository: https://github.com/blochberger/developer-guidelines (automatically synched with Gitbook repository)
• Gitbook repository: https://gitbook.com/book/blochberger/developer-guidelines (automatically synched with Github repository)

Style / Workflow

1. Place each sentence on a single line. This makes reviewing and commenting changes easier. Paragraphs are added with two line breaks anyway.
2. If you want feedback on your change, please submit a Change Request.
3. Add feedback via inline discussions, i.e., by clicking on the + symbol right to the paragraph in reading mode.