Developer Centred Privacy: analysis of developers struggles with implementing privacy features into software systems

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Developers need to incorporate a range of privacy features in their application to support users in protecting their personal information and also to comply with a range of data protection regulations. However, little is understood about the struggles developers face in incorporating these privacy artifacts into software design.This research will investigate developers' struggles and seek to understand how these challenges manifests during development tasks and how they deal with them. It will further examine developers' mental models of privacy and regulatory compliance when it comes to implementing various regulatory standards. Based on these insights, this work will develop and propose a framework to support developers in incorporating privacy into software systems. The framework (i.e. guidance, tools, methods) will also support developers in making better privacy conscious decisions based on informed interpretation of privacy regulations while ensuring that this does not lead to significant overhead or divergence from their objectives in delivering the core functionality of the software system at hand.