Our Privacy Impact Assessments ensure transparency and compliance in data handling, enhancing customer trust and safeguarding our reputation.
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is generally regarded as a systematic risk assessment tool that can be integrated into the decision-making process. This is a systematic process to assess the impact of a project on personal data privacy with a view to avoiding or minimizing adverse impacts. All departments, enterprises and institutions of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government must comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486) and conduct PIA when personal data is collected, stored, used and processed and when major privacy issues are involved.
PIA systematically identifies potential privacy risks in personal data processing, provides forward-looking guidance to organizations, and clarifies the compliance measures that need to be deployed as a priority, thereby building targeted protection mechanisms before major resource investments to avoid compliance costs and reputation losses caused by privacy vulnerabilities.
A PIA helps an organization demonstrate compliance with relevant privacy and data protection requirements in the event of a subsequent complaint, privacy audit, or compliance investigation.
PIA can enhance informed decision-making, expose internal privacy management loopholes, and help customers proactively identify hidden dangers and avoid external audits or passive responses afterwards.
PIA provides data users with an "early alert" to identify and detect privacy issues before a project is implemented. Any organization, public or private sector data user concerned about privacy should conduct a PIA to manage the privacy risks arising from projects involving:
Processing (whether by the data user himself or an agent engaged by the data user) or storing large amounts of personal data
Use of highly privacy-intrusive technology that affects a wide range of people
Significant changes in the way an organization does things, which results in an increase in the amount and scope of personal data collected, processed
DPP1 Purpose and method of collection
DPP2 Accuracy and retention period
DPP3 Use of information
DPP4 Data security
DPP5 transparency
DPP6 Review and Correction