Company Privacy Landscape Questions

Demonstrate company specific understanding of privacy and data protection considerations. This covers the organization public privacy commitments, data handling scale and types, major privacy initiatives, known privacy risks or incidents, applicable privacy regulations for their markets and products, data governance practices, and how privacy requirements influence product design, analytics, and third party integrations. Interviewers look for evidence you researched the company privacy context and can discuss implications for compliance, user trust, and practical privacy engineering or policy tradeoffs.

MediumTechnical

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Implement a simple Laplace mechanism in Python that adds noise to integer counts for differential privacy. Provide a function:

def dp_count(count: int, epsilon: float) -> int: # return noisy count

Explain how epsilon affects utility and privacy, and give a recommended epsilon range for reporting aggregated daily active users in a consumer product.

EasyTechnical

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Define 'data minimization' in practical terms for a SaaS analytics product and give three concrete examples of minimized data collection or processing decisions (e.g., removing fields, reducing precision, sampling). Explain why each example reduces privacy risk without unduly harming product value.

HardTechnical

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Implement (or outline in pseudocode) a small-scale k-anonymity algorithm in Python that groups rows by quasi-identifiers until each group has size >= k. You may assume simple quasi-identifiers and demonstrate on a small example. Discuss scalability and where this approach falls short.

EasyBehavioral

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Describe a situation where you discovered non-compliant data usage in analytics (sharing PII without consent or storing sensitive fields). What did you do? Explain the steps you took to remediate, communicate, and prevent recurrence using the STAR format.

EasyTechnical

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Write a Python function (using pandas) that given a DataFrame computes basic privacy profile metrics for a list of candidate PII columns: proportion of nulls, unique_count, and approximate entropy (Shannon) for each column. Provide the function signature and brief implementation steps.

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