How Here Technologies Bridges the Privacy Engineering Gap with Privado’s Privacy Code Scanning

About Here Technologies

Here Technologies has been a pioneer in mapping and location technology for almost 40 years, with their location platform being recognized as the most complete in the industry. Their mission is to enable digital representation of reality to improve how the world moves and interacts.

Alexandra Kovacevic, Director of Product Trust; Elena Vidyakina, Principal Research Engineer in the Privacy Engineering team; and Johannes Braese, Senior Privacy Engineer at Here Technologies walk us through the challenges they were facing, how they went about exploring solutions and how they were able to get immediate benefit from a Privado pilot, plus the business impact of implementing Privado’s Privacy Code Scanning solution.

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The Challenge

Ensuring privacy compliance in product development had been a challenge for the Here team. The process of capturing changes in privacy evidences when personal information is being processed was cumbersome for both the privacy office and the development teams. Subjectivity and dependency on people following procedures meant that privacy compliance was not guaranteed.

Solution

The team sought solutions and implemented a pilot program with Privado’s Privacy Code Scanning. Within a month, a significant portion of all their repositories were scanned, with impressive results and insights. Compliance issues that were not previously identified manually were discovered early in the process, allowing the team to mitigate them before they became critical.

Now, with Privado’s solution in place, privacy evidences follow the product evolution cadence, and data lineage functionality enables the Here team to understand what data is flowing in and out of their products. Privado integrates with their existing systems and allows them to seamlessly find out if any personal data elements are processed by their products and not covered by their privacy evidence records.

What Here Technologies Gained

What Here Technologies gained was the ability to have objective measures when new data elements are being processed, with Privado triggering the necessary processes in the company. Developers now have clarity on what privacy officers need from them, and privacy officers have precision and up-to-date information when changes happen.

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