Identifying Personal Data Processing for Code Review

Feiyang Tang, Bjarte Østvold, Magiel Bruntink

2023

Abstract

Code review is a critical step in the software development life cycle, which assesses and boosts the code’s effectiveness and correctness, pinpoints security issues, and raises its quality by adhering to best practices. Due to the increased need for personal data protection motivated by legislation, code reviewers need to understand where personal data is located in software systems and how it is handled. Although most recent work on code review focuses on security vulnerabilities, privacy-related techniques are not easy for code reviewers to implement, making their inclusion in the code review process challenging. In this paper, we present ongoing work on a new approach to identifying personal data processing, enabling developers and code reviewers in drafting privacy analyses and complying with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tang F., Østvold B. and Bruntink M. (2023). Identifying Personal Data Processing for Code Review. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-624-8, pages 568-575. DOI: 10.5220/0011725700003405

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp23,
author={Feiyang Tang and Bjarte Østvold and Magiel Bruntink},
title={Identifying Personal Data Processing for Code Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2023},
pages={568-575},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011725700003405},
isbn={978-989-758-624-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Identifying Personal Data Processing for Code Review
SN - 978-989-758-624-8
AU - Tang F.
AU - Østvold B.
AU - Bruntink M.
PY - 2023
SP - 568
EP - 575
DO - 10.5220/0011725700003405