Principle 6: Respect for User Privacy

This principle emphasizes keeping user interests paramount throughout system design and operation. Privacy should enhance user experience, not detract from it. This means designing privacy controls that are intuitive, providing clear value propositions for data sharing, and respecting user choices consistently across all systems and over time.

Respecting user privacy requires organizational commitment beyond technical implementation. Development teams need processes that consider user privacy impact for every feature. Product managers must balance business objectives with user privacy expectations. Support teams need training to handle privacy requests appropriately. This cultural shift makes privacy everyone's responsibility.