Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook

Citation
Office of the Privacy Commissioner (NZ),  Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook (June 2007) (full-text).

Overview
Protection of privacy is more than simply avoiding a breach of the law. It can involve striving for something better. Privacy impact assessment is one of a range of new techniques which are increasingly being used internationally to better manage privacy risks. Others include privacy compliance audits, privacy seals and associated self-regulatory initiatives and privacy enhancing technologies. Each builds on the bedrock of the enforceable privacy rights for citizens and consumers enshrined in law.

Privacy impact assessment enables public and private bodies to make informed choices. It will often be the case that a privacy enhancing solution will be no more difficult or costly to implement than an intrusive one, if the option is identified sufficiently early in project planning.