Developers’ mindset on self-adaptive privacy and its requirements for cloud computing environments: Developers’ mindset on Self-Adaptive

Privacy design in cloud systems remains complex, with unclear processes and a mismatch between privacy engineering and cloud integration challenges. Developers play a pivotal yet underexplored role in this landscape. This study investigates developers’ perspectives on privacy, focusing on self-adaptive privacy in cloud environments. Through six(6) qualitative interviews with developers from Greece, Spain, and the UK, the study uncovers valuable insights into their challenges and perspectives, contributing to the establishment of actionable privacy goals and a taxonomy of self-adaptive privacy requirements. The findings underscore the need for clearer guidance and actionable insights for developers to enhance privacy practices in cloud development.