Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Information sharing

Information sharing, also called onward transfer in the US and European Safe Harbor privacy principle, refers to the scope of sharing information within the enterprise that collects it, and with organizations external to it. It is common in business enterprises to share or sell information to other entities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Privacy_Principles).

In general, the PIA should list and describe (Toward a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Companion to the CIS Critical Security Controls; Center for Internet Security, 2015) the following:

• Organizations with whom information is shared, and what types of agreement either exist or need to be formed between them. Agreements can take the form of ...