Overview
- First in-depth review of privacy impact assessments globally
- First comparative country analysis on PIAs with a focus on data protection
- A practical guide highlighting known issues, shortcomings, difficulties and suggesting solutions
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 6)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Five Countries Lead the Way
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Front Matter
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PIA in the Private Sector: Three Examples
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Front Matter
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Specialised PIA: The Cases of the Financial Services Industry and the RFID PIA Framework
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Keywords
- Data Protection
- EU Data Protection Directives
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Ethical Impact
- European Commission
- Freedom of Information
- Human Rights
- Impact Assessments
- Liberal Democracies
- Modern Liberal Democracy
- PIA
- Paperwork Reduction
- Plain Language
- Privacy
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Protecting Privacy
- Rights and Freedoms
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Surveillance
- Technology Impact Assesment
- The Madrid Resolution
About this book
Privacy impact assessment is a tool, a process, a methodology to identify, assess, mitigate or avoid privacy risks and, in collaboration with stakeholders, to identify solutions.
Contributors to this book – privacy commissioners, academics, consultants, practitioners, industry representatives – are among the world’s leading PIA experts. They share their experience and offer their insights to the reader in the policy and practice of PIA in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere.
This book, the first such on privacy impact assessment, will be of interest to any organisation that collects or uses personal data and, in particular, to regulators, policy-makers, privacy professionals, including privacy, security and information officials, consultants, system architects, engineers and integrators, compliance lawyers and marketing professionals.
In his Foreword, surveillance studies guru Gary Marx says, “This state-of-the-art book describes the most comprehensive tool yet available for policy-makers to evaluate new personal data information technologies before they are introduced.”
This book could save your organisation many thousands or even millions of euros (or dollars) and the damage to your organisation’s reputation and to the trust of employees, customers or citizens if it suffers a data breach that could have been avoided if only it had performed a privacy impact assessment beforedeploying a new technology, product, service or other initiative involving personal data.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“A volume devoted to one of the privacy tools currently in use to evaluate privacy risks. The book offers a broad and worldwide perspective, with 20–plus chapters contributed by privacy scholars, public and private sector practitioners, and regulators. It’s the first volume on the subject. … Anyone tasked with defining PIA requirements through policy, rule, or law or simply with conducting an individual PIA will be richly rewarded by reading this volume.” (Robert Gellman, First Monday, Vol. 19 (9), September, 2012)
“A handbook for those data protection and privacy professionals working in the field … . it gives a comprehensive overview of PIA around the world; it identifies open issues; and it provides the reader with best practices examples of PIA in order to improve any future PIA exercises. … This volume provides a rich set of information and reflections, experiences and examples on PIA, which makes it a truly outstanding contribution in the field—both for practitioners and for academics working in this area.” (Nils Zurawski, International Data Privacy Law, Vol. 2 (4), November, 2012)
“Taking a truly international perspective, and with contributions from a large number of leading practitioners, compliance leaders and academics, this publication is in turn historical record, academic study and empirical evaluation. … It is unquestionably an interesting read, with a wealth of experience presented from other countries and multinational companies in relation to the practical realities of using PIAs. … this book is likely to be seen as a highly valuable guide.” (Stephanie Pritchett, Privacy & Data Protection, Vol. 12 (5), June, 2012)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Privacy Impact Assessment
Editors: David Wright, Paul Hert
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2543-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2542-3Published: 22 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5402-7Published: 22 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2543-0Published: 31 January 2012
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 523
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Constitutional Law, Political Science, Public Law