Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)


Privacy impact assessments (PIA) identify the privacy ramifications of business practices.

  • run an assessment of the current state of an org’s privacy practices
  • use a standard or framework
    • ISO 27701
  • end result should be a privacy impact analysis
    • identifies any places where the organization’s business practices handle personal information
    • describes the impact of those practices on the organization’s legal and ethical privacy obligations