RT Journal Article T1 Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments A1 Santamaria, Izaskun A1 Larrucea, Xabier A1 Fernandez-Gauna, Borja A1 Fernandez‐Gauna, Borja AB With the advent of regulations protecting users such as the General Data Protection Regulation, security and privacy concerns are playing a new role in small settings such as in very small entities. Their relevance is increasing, and privacy is being considered a Troy horse in software developments. In fact, privacy is a part of software architectural decisions, and they must be considered as a technical debt. The contributions of this paper are the following: a privacy debt definition with a principal and an interest, privacy-related activities to be considered within the ISO/IEC 29110 basic profile, and the use of the net present value within this context. All these contributions help us to integrate privacy debt and VSE's software developments. SN 1532-060X YR 2023 FD 2023-08 LA eng NO Santamaria , I , Larrucea , X , Fernandez-Gauna , B & Fernandez‐Gauna , B 2023 , ' Integrating privacy debt and VSE's software developments ' , Journal of software: Evolution and Process , vol. 35 , no. 8 , e2437 . https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2437 NO Publisher Copyright: © 2022 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DS TECNALIA Publications RD 3 jul 2024