Chapter 12

Conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment

Abstract

A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is the process that one goes through to determine if personally identifiable private information is being appropriately safeguarded. All federal agencies are required to appoint a Privacy Officer. Numerous OMB memos have been released with government policies on privacy safeguards. All federal agencies are required to have privacy policies.

Keywords

Personally identifiable information; PII; Privacy Officer; System of Record Notice; SORN; Persistent tracking technologies; Decommissioning of PII; OMB Memorandum; OMB memos; Privacy

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

—Janov Pelorat in ...

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