Privacy impact assessment reports: a report card
Abstract
Purpose
Privacy impact assessments (PIAs) are an important tool for managing risk in both public and private sector projects. The best evidence of how PIAs are being conducted is the PIA reports published at the conclusion of the process. This paper aims to consider PIA reports from five countries and assesses their strengths, weaknesses and impacts.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper also identifies key trends and makes recommendations for improving the PIA process and enabling access to lessons learned by PIA practitioners.
Findings
The paper calls for further study of PIA case studies to determine how closely practitioners and assessors follow the PIA methodologies promulgated in their countries, to seek good practice in the preparation of PIAs and for the creation of a central repository for PIAs.
Originality/value
The author believes this is the first such paper to review actual PIA reports.
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Citation
Wadhwa, K. (2012), "Privacy impact assessment reports: a report card", info, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636691211223210
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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