Designing products that protect privacy

The guidance on this page is for people designing digital products and services that involve processing personal information.

Getting started

How to think about privacy in product design

Practical tools and guidance to design for privacy at all stages of the product design process, including kick-off, research, design, development, launch, and post-launch phases.

In detail

Designing for children

Guidance and resources for designing online services likely to be accessed by children and applying the standards of the children's code in practice.

Data protection by design and default

The UK GDPR requires you to integrate data protection concerns into every aspect of your processing activities.

Guidance for consumer Internet of Things products and services

This guidance explains how data protection law and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (as amended) (PECR) apply when you process personal information in consumer Internet of Things (IoT) products.