Accountability
What is Accountability?
The obligation of an individual or organization to account for their activities, accept responsibility for outcomes, and disclose results transparently.
Terms that appear alongside accountability
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as accountability. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 109 shared controls
- governance 97 shared controls
- audit 72 shared controls
- data protection 59 shared controls
- gdpr 50 shared controls
- transparency 47 shared controls
- integrity 34 shared controls
- consent 30 shared controls
Frameworks that govern accountability
What the standards actually require on accountability
Requirements naming accountability across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Global CBPR Forum is based on the 9 APEC PRIVACY PRINCIPLES adopted in 2004 + revised 2015 + carried forward into Global CBPR Program Requirements (~50 detailed).
CBPR-9-APEC-Privacy-Principles · Global CBPR Forum: 9 APEC Privacy Principles (Notice + Collection + Uses + Choice + Integrity + Security + Access + Accountability + Preventing Harm) →Persons processing personal data should maintain records sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the Act, including purposes, categories, retention, and protective measures applied to the data.
CH-FADP-16 · Record keeping and accountability →Establish clear accountability across governing body, executive, and operational layers with documented authorities.
GOV-ACCOUNT · Accountability Mechanisms →Accountability and non-repudiation. Control from BSI IT-Grundschutz framework, domain: BSI IT-Grundschutz: Audit & Accountability.
BSI-32 · Accountability and non-repudiation →Requires an audit and accountability policy and supporting procedures to be developed, approved, issued to defined personnel, owned by a named official, and reviewed and updated on a defined frequency and after defined events.
NIST800-AU-1 · Policy and procedures for audit and accountability →Accountability (Sekinin 責任) is the seventh of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + addresses organisational governance + clear responsibility allocation + stakeholder engagement + regulatory compliance across AI lifecycle.
JP-AIG-Accountability-Governance-AI-Inventory-Stakeholder-Engagement-Board-Reporting-Tone-at-Top · Japan AI Guidelines Accountability + Governance + AI Inventory + Stakeholder Engagement + Board Reporting + Tone at Top + AI Ethics Committee + DPO + AI Officer + Regulatory Compliance + Multi-Stakeholder →Questions people ask about accountability
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