Privacy Impact Assessments.
Privacy Impact Assessments provide a framework to help ensure that privacy is considered throughout the design or redesign of programs or services. The PIA assessment is a resource to clarify the risks and effects of collecting, maintaining and disseminating information, and to examine and evaluate protections and alternative processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy risks. PIA’s are also designed to help embed responsible privacy practice and to promote fully informed policy, program and system design choices.
PIA models conducted by 80/20Â
 80/20 Thinking conducts two forma of PIA for both private and public sector organisations.Â
Full externally conducted PIA
This conventional model operates on the basis of an external evaluation in which 80/20 Thinking takes the lead in gathering and analysing information, conducting workshops and consultations and drawing up reports. Â A single point of contact is agreed with the commissioning organisation and a process is established which places 80/20 at the centre of the PIA process. A variant of this model can be constructed in which the client shadows 80/20 in order to learn the PIA process in detail so that the organisation is better equipped to conduct its own PIAs in the future.
Externally assisted in-house PIA
In this second model 80/20 will advise and shadow the client as it conducts an internal PIA. In the externally assisted model 80/20 will conduct a comprehensive workshop with a team from the commissioning organisation, leading to an agreed process drawn primarily from the organisation's own resources. 80/20 will then be on hand to regularly review each stage of the PIA, ensuring that the programme is followed and that any complexities are resolved. The key advantage of the externally assisted model is that it almost always ensures that the client is equipped with the resources and the skills to conduct all future PIA work.