Privacy Audits

Privacy audits are procedures to ensure that your organization’s goals and promises of privacy and confidentiality are supported by its practices.

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Privacy audits are procedures to ensure that your organization’s goals and promises of privacy and confidentiality are supported by its practices. As a result, they protect confidential information from abuse and the organization from liability and public relations problems.

A privacy audit provides a library an opportunity to examine:

  • How privacy matters are handled at all levels
  • The flow and storage of data
  • The role data plays within the organization
  • Staff training about privacy matters
  • Existing and needed privacy policies

Resources

  • Privacy Audit Field Guides
  • Guidelines and Checklists: Libraries can use the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Library Privacy Guidelines and Checklists as a tool in the audit process.
  • This will help walk you through the audit process.
  • A for evaluating how platforms meet or exceed user privacy needs.

Updated October 2021