Privacy Impact Assessment

The Privacy Pro Academy Bridges the Privacy Skills Gap

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Monday, August 21, 2023

"Companies need people who can DO privacy," says Lauren Reid, Founder of The Privacy Pro.

Key Points: 
  • "Companies need people who can DO privacy," says Lauren Reid, Founder of The Privacy Pro.
  • Hundreds of people earn a privacy certification a year, but they don't have the practical skills to do the work.
  • That's why we created The Privacy Pro Academy."
  • The Privacy Pro Academy fills the gaps and teaches privacy professionals how to do privacy with workshops focused on day-to-day operational privacy work featuring experienced, world-class privacy leaders.

Grant Thornton launches empower.x to streamline change management programs

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Monday, November 14, 2022

Change at an enterprise level can be hard, slow and unpredictable, said Jennifer Morelli, a principal in the Business Change Enablement practice at Grant Thornton.

Key Points: 
  • Change at an enterprise level can be hard, slow and unpredictable, said Jennifer Morelli, a principal in the Business Change Enablement practice at Grant Thornton.
  • When combined with Grant Thorntons change management experience, the application helps clients achieve a goal that is simple to define, but confoundingly elusive in practice: effectively manage change.
  • The empower.x applications capabilities enable Grant Thornton change management practitioners to:
    Stakeholder Identification safely collect and store information on a clients impacted stakeholder groups.
  • Grant Thornton refers to Grant Thornton LLP, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL).

Census

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Monday, October 31, 2022

Census

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  • Census
    28 July 2016
    The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was consulted on the Privacy Impact Assessment: Proposal to Retain Name and Address Information from Responses to the 2016 Census of Population and Housing in 2015.
  • The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has worked cooperatively with the OAIC to provide further information as to how it will manage the information collected during the Census to ensure it is protected in accordance with the Australian Privacy Act 1988.

Privacy Awareness Week launched for 2017

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Monday, October 31, 2022

Privacy Awareness Week launched for 2017

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  • Privacy Awareness Week launched for 2017
    With privacy attracting a record level of attention from Australian consumers and communities, Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has today previewed key events of this years Privacy Awareness Week (15 to 19 May 2017).
  • So Im pleased that the latest release of our national privacy survey will be the focal point of this years Privacy Awareness Week.
  • The Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey 2017 will be released in Privacy Awareness Week providing the latest update to Australias longest-standing national privacy study.
  • The theme for Privacy Awareness Week is trust and transparency which speaks to the importance of organisations handling personal information with care.

Flight Centre found to have interfered with privacy

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Monday, October 31, 2022

Flight Centre found to have interfered with privacy

Key Points: 
  • Flight Centre found to have interfered with privacy
    Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has determined that Flight Centre interfered with the privacy of almost 7,000 customers by disclosing their personal information to third parties without consent.
  • The information, including individuals credit card and passport details, was released by Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd during a design jam in 2017.
  • The Flight Centre design jam brought together 16 teams to create technological solutions for travel agents.
  • Flight Centres privacy policy included some general statements about disclosing personal information to improve and develop their products.

Transcend Launches New Privacy Risk Management Product, Offering Automated Guidance to Streamline Privacy Impact Assessments

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Transcend, the one-stop privacy platform that makes it easy for companies to encode modern privacy requirements into their data ecosystems, has today released a new Assessments product aimed at reducing the work and risk associated with processing personal data.

Key Points: 
  • This first-of-its-kind offering builds on Transcend's automated data discovery, classification, and governance capabilities by proactively flagging to privacy teams when a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) may be required, auto-suggesting relevant metadata, and automatically highlighting incomplete assessments across a company's data map.
  • Without centralized data visibility, risk and privacy assessment management has become an operational burden for privacy teams, leaving companies with compliance gaps and privacy risks.
  • "Privacy professionals rarely have a quantifiable, easily defined process for kicking off, compiling, and approving Privacy Impact Assessments," said Brandon Wiebe, Transcend General Counsel and Head of Privacy.
  • Approval and status tracking: Transcend Assessments includes powerful tools to identify outstanding tasks, documents missing key stakeholder input, and flag assessments pending DPO approval.

Ardent Privacy launches its flagship product, TurtleShield Data Privacy Suite at IAPP Global privacy Summit 2022

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Monday, April 11, 2022

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ardent Privacy, a Maryland-based data privacy and protection company, launches its flagship product, TurtleShield Privacy Suite at IAPP Global privacy Summit 2022.

Key Points: 
  • Ardent Privacy, a Maryland-based data privacy company, launches its flagship product, TurtleShield Data Privacy Suite at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022.
  • WASHINGTON, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ardent Privacy , a Maryland-based data privacy and protection company, launches its flagship product, TurtleShield Privacy Suite at IAPP Global privacy Summit 2022 .
  • TurtleShield AD : Securely delete personal data, enable RTBF (Right To Be Forgotten)
    Ardent Privacy helps enterprises to comply with data privacy regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Protection Bill (India), UK Data Protection Act, LGPD (Brazil) and more privacy regulations coming in effect globally.
  • TurtleShield is an AI-powered enterprise software platform that helps businesses discover, identify, inventory, map, minimize, and securely delete personal data.

RaySecur Launches T-Suite Image Processing Platform Ahead of ISC West

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

LAS VEGAS, March 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RaySecur™, a security imaging company with the world's first DHS Safety Act-designated T-ray desktop scanner for mail and package threat detection, today launched its T-SuiteTM Image Processing Suite for MailSecur® scanners. The software platform upgrade provides customers with a more dynamic and accurate real-time 4D imaging experience. RaySecur will demonstrate the new capabilities at ISC West (International Security Conference & Exposition) on March 22-25, at booth #21125, at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas.

Key Points: 
  • The software platform upgrade provides customers with a more dynamic and accurate real-time 4D imaging experience.
  • RaySecur will demonstrate the new capabilities at ISC West (International Security Conference & Exposition) on March 22-25, at booth #21125, at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas.
  • The T-Suite update produces higher frame rates that enhance image realism and sharpen object edges for better detection.
  • MailSecur is a registered trademark and RaySecur, EODSecur, SecurTone,MailSecurConnect,4D-AI, andT-Suiteare trademarks of RaySecur Inc. in the United States.

BigID Expands Privacy Suite with Privacy Impact Assessment Application to Evaluate Data Processing Risk

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

BigID's PIA app, part of the BigID Privacy Suite, enables organizations to identify, document, and minimize the risk associated with personally identifiable information (PII) to determine if data processing is considered a high privacy risk.

Key Points: 
  • BigID's PIA app, part of the BigID Privacy Suite, enables organizations to identify, document, and minimize the risk associated with personally identifiable information (PII) to determine if data processing is considered a high privacy risk.
  • The GDPR, chief among these, has ushered in strict requirements around privacy impact assessments and lawful processing of data.
  • BigID will demonstrate its full privacy suite, including its Record of Processing Activities (RoPA) Data Mapping App and new PIA app, holistic privacy management solutions for risk assessments, at the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress today.
  • BigID's privacy suite brings holistic privacy management to organizations - spanning data inventory and mapping, RoPA and PIA, preference management, data minimization, data rights automation, and more - enablingorganizations to operationalize data privacy across the entire organization, and across their entire data landscape.