# Ontologies for Privacy Requirements Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.10097 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.10097/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 30 Nov 2016.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Privacy has been frequently identified as a main concern for system developers while dealing with/managing personal information. Despite this, most existing work on privacy requirements deals with them as a special case of security requirements. Therefore, key aspects of privacy are, usually, overlooked. In this context, wrong design decisions might be made due to insufficient understanding of privacy concerns. In this paper, we address this problem with a systematic literature review whose main purpose is to identify the main concepts/relations for capturing privacy requirements. In addition, the identified concepts/relations are further analyzed to propose a novel privacy ontology to be used by software engineers when dealing with privacy requirements.