Privacy Program
What is Privacy Program?
An organized set of activities, policies, and resources dedicated to protecting personal data and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations across an organization.
Terms that appear alongside privacy program
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as privacy program. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 4 shared controls
- governance 4 shared controls
- data protection 3 shared controls
- consent 3 shared controls
- accountability 3 shared controls
- policy 3 shared controls
- glba 2 shared controls
- ccpa 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on privacy program
Requirements naming privacy program across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Appoint a senior agency official for privacy with the authority, mission, accountability, and resources to coordinate, develop, and implement, applicable privacy requirements and manage privacy risks through the organization-wide privacy program.
NIST800-PM-19 · PM-19 Privacy Program Leadership Role →Organisation monitors compliance with its privacy policies, procedures, and commitments on an ongoing basis.
PMF-ME.1 · Privacy Program Monitoring →The organisation appoints a privacy senior official or executive with the authority, mission, accountability and resources to coordinate, develop and implement privacy requirements and manage privacy risk through the organisation-wide program.
canada-itsp-10-033-security-and-privacy-controls-and-assurance-activities-catalogue::PM-19 · PM-19 Privacy program leadership role →Names the leader accountable for privacy including the privacy risk carried by the supply chain.
161R1-PM-19 · Privacy Program Leadership Role →SIG risk domain P, Privacy Management. The third party manages privacy beyond safeguarding: authorised collection, use and transfer of personal data, privacy-focused risk assessments for regulated data, and a program covering, in the SCA privacy section, progr...
sig-shared-assessments::P · Run a privacy program for personal data processed in the service →Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) enacted via House Bill 15 (HB 15) signed by Governor 4 April 2024 + codified at KRS Chapter 367 Sections 1-10 + effective 1 January 2026.
KY-CDPA-Scope-Applicability-Threshold-HB15-KRS-Chapter-367-Effective-1-January-2026-100000-25000 · Kentucky CDPA Scope + Applicability + Thresholds + HB 15 + KRS Chapter 367 + Effective 1 January 2026 + 100,000 Consumers OR 25,000 Consumers + 50% Revenue from Sale + Attorney General Enforcement + VCDPA Template + Commonwealth of Kentucky →Questions people ask about privacy program
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