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privacy impact assessment (PIA)

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Definitions:

  An analysis of how information is handled to ensure handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; to determine the risks and effects of creating, collecting, using, processing, storing, maintaining, disseminating, disclosing, and disposing of information in identifiable form in an electronic information system; and to examine and evaluate protections and alternate processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy concerns. A privacy impact assessment is both an analysis and a formal document detailing the process and the outcome of the analysis.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-37 Rev. 2 under privacy impact assessment from OMB Circular A-130 (2016)
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 under privacy impact assessment from OMB Circular A-130 (2016)
NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5 under privacy impact assessment from OMB Circular A-130 (2016)
NIST SP 800-53B under privacy impact assessment from OMB Circular A-130 (2016)

  “An analysis of how information is handled that ensures handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; determines the risks and effects of collecting, maintaining and disseminating information in identifiable form in an electronicinformation system; and examines and evaluates protections and alternative processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy risks.”
Sources:
NIST SP 800-122 under Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) from OMB M-03-22

  An analysis of how information is handled 1) to ensure handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; 2) to determine the risks and effects of collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information in identifiable form in an electronic information system; and 3) to examine and evaluate protections and alternative processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy risks.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 from OMB Memorandum 03-22

  An analysis of how information is handled: (i) to ensure handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; (ii) to determine the risks and effects of collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information in identifiable form in an electronic information system; and (iii) to examine and evaluate protections and alternative processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy risks.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-18 Rev. 1 under Privacy Impact Assessment from OMB Memorandum 03-22

  An analysis of how information is handled: (i) to ensure handling conforms to applicable legal, regulatory, and policy requirements regarding privacy; (ii) to determine the risks and effects of collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information in identifiable form in an electronic information system; and (iii) to examine and evaluate protections and alternative processes for handling information to mitigate potential privacy risks.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-60 Vol. 1 Rev. 1 under Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) from OMB Memorandum 03-22
NIST SP 800-60 Vol. 2 Rev. 1 under Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) from OMB Memorandum 03-22