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Privacy by designWhat it means for you.

Building privacy protections into products and processes from the start, not adding them later.

Growth Score · Capital & Scale

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What it means

Privacy by design means defaults that protect people, collecting little and explaining clearly. It is an explicit requirement in GDPR. It is usually cheaper than fixing problems afterward.

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What is Privacy by design?

Building privacy protections into products and processes from the start, not adding them later.

Where does it sit in Growth Score?

It belongs to the Capital & Scale pillar, one of the 12 pillars your score is built from.

What should I read next?

Start with Data minimization and Cookieless tracking, then browse the other terms in Capital & Scale.

How does your site score?

Growth Score reads your site and scores its Capital & Scale pillar against sites like yours.

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