Glossary
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
A PIA is like checking your homework before turning it in - you look at everything you are doing with personal information to make sure you are not creating privacy problems.
What is Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)?
A systematic process for evaluating how a project or system will affect the privacy of individuals and identifying ways to mitigate privacy risks.
Why Should You Care?
PIAs help organizations identify and address privacy risks before they become problems. GDPR requires Data Protection Impact Assessments for high-risk processing.
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Real-World Example
Before launching a new customer analytics platform, a company conducts a PIA and discovers they need to implement additional consent mechanisms.
How to Protect Against Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
- 1.
Create PIA template and process
- 2.
Train project managers on PIA requirements
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