Privacy Risk
What is Privacy Risk?
The potential for harm to individuals resulting from the collection, processing, or disclosure of their personal information.
Terms that appear alongside privacy risk
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as privacy risk. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk assessment 15 shared controls
- data protection 10 shared controls
- compliance 9 shared controls
- gdpr 9 shared controls
- accountability 9 shared controls
- governance 7 shared controls
- privacy risk assessment 7 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
Frameworks that govern privacy risk
What the standards actually require on privacy risk
Requirements naming privacy risk across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
All eight ISO 31000:2018 principles hold (integrated; structured and comprehensive; customized; inclusive; dynamic; best available information; human and cultural factors; continual improvement). Two privacy points are added.
iso-iec-27557-2022-organisational-privacy-risk-management::4 · 4 Principles of organizational privacy risk management →The organization should implement the risk treatment plans through the initiative's development and change processes, with the risk owners carrying out the controls on the planned timing and the action items of 5.2 tracked to completion, so that the PIA change...
iso-iec-29134-2023::6.5.3 · 6.5.3 Implement privacy risk treatment plans →The organization shall put its privacy risk treatment plan into effect and keep documented evidence of what the treatment achieved.
iso-iec-27701-2025::8.3 · Privacy risk treatment →Organisation conducts assessments to identify and evaluate privacy risks arising from data processing activities.
PMF-M.3 · Privacy Risk Assessment →The organisation identifies and assesses risks to privacy and records them in a risk register.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::PRIVACY-1J · PRIVACY-1J: Privacy risks recorded in a risk register →An information security plan sets out how information security risk is managed and kept consistent with enterprise strategy and architecture. Recommendations for improvement rest on business cases that have been approved;
cobit-2019::APO13.02 · APO13.02 Define and manage an information security and privacy risk treatment plan →Questions people ask about privacy risk
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