Security/Process/Technical Privacy Review

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Status: Draft
Date: 2013.12.20
ToDo: Final sign-off

Purpose

In order to ensure that the software produced my Mozilla is in accordance with our privacy principles it is neccessary to review the technical architecture and operations of certain items.

Tools

Entrance

Items have 3 ways to enter the process

  1. Via the Project Kickoff Form
    • Based on the answes to the questions a bug with the proper settings will be filled
  2. A direct Security Assurance: Review Request
    • Keyword set to privacy-review-needed
    • Summary should start with Privacy Review:
  3. Marking a bug with the keyword privacy-review-needed
    • NOTE: The bug should also be marked with a need-info? to :curtisk

Process

  1. When the feature has reached either feature complete or Design Complete stage a privacy wiki for the items is created using the template
  2. Initial required items at wiki creation
    • Feature/Product
    • Product Champion - the contact in the product team for this review
    • Privacy Champion - the privacy contact who will preform the review
    • Security Contact - member of the security team who may be doing other review work
    • Document State - set to new ([NEW] ) with any necessary information
  3. Dates in the Timeline section shall be updated as necessary as the issue progresses
  4. The link to the technical privacy review wiki will then be copied in the bug and sent to the Product Champion to add information
    • The focus of this information is 2 fold
      • Information inputs - where, from whom, and what type of information is being gathered
      • Information outputs - where, to whom (teams, systems, 3rd parties) and what type of information is being shared
  5. Each component that is involved in data gathering or data export should be enumerated as a seperate Component X section of the wiki
  6. If a meeting is required to review any of the information that shall be setup between the Privacy Champion, the Product Champion and any other necessary parties
  7. When completed the wiki will be passed back to the Pricay Champion for reivew and completion of the User Data Risk Minimization and Alignment with Privacy Opearating Principles sections.
    • Any bugs that need to be filled for information or alteration will be filled and set to blockt he review bug and the feature bug
    • Document State - set to Document State - set to new ([ON TRACK] ) and a link to the public newsgroup for comments
      • a link to the discussion thread should also be added to the Follow-up Tasks and Tracking section
  8. The wiki will then be shared to:
    • dev-platform
    • security-group
  9. This shall serve as the public comment to review the work done, ask furhter questions and add information or questions for follow-up
    • The public comment time shall last for 7 calendar days
  10. If new questions or items missed during the Privacy Champion review are uncovered they shall be added to the wiki and bugs filled as neccessary
    • Items should be added to the Follow-up Tasks and Tracking section of the document for tracking
  11. If no new information or comments are garnered then the public comment period shall be closed.
  12. if a meeting is required to review any of the information that shall be setup between the Privacy Champion, the Product Champion and any other necessary parties
  13. Once all bugs are sufficiently resolved and all follow-up items are resolved the Document State - set to new ([DONE] ) with any necessary information and teh bug for tracking the work shall be resolved