Privacy & data

Privacy impact assessments

Test a proposed project, system or data use before decisions become difficult or expensive to reverse.

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Clear legal direction

A useful privacy impact assessment supports sound decisions. It is not simply a completed template. We work alongside project, legal, risk, product and technology teams to map information flows, identify effects on people and design practical safeguards.

How we can help

Advice built around the real decision.

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Full privacy impact assessments for higher risk initiatives

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Proportionate assessments and privacy by design reviews

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Information flow mapping and stakeholder workshops

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Assessment of necessity, proportionality and alternatives

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Mitigation plans, decision records and executive summaries

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Independent review of internally prepared assessments

When to get in touch

You may be dealing with this now.

A project involves biometrics, AI, profiling or sensitive information

Personal information will be combined, repurposed or shared in a new way

A new vendor, platform or cloud service will handle personal information

You need a strong record of how privacy risk was considered

The aim

A practical assessment that makes the information use, risks, safeguards and residual decisions visible to the people responsible for approving them.

A clear first step

Tell us what you need to decide.

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