Privacy Audits
Privacy audits are procedures to ensure that your organization’s goals and promises of privacy and confidentiality are supported by its practices.
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 ALA Library Privacy Guidelines and Checklists as a tool in the audit process.
- This webinar from the Metropolitan New York Library Council will help walk you through the audit process.
- A rubric for evaluating how platforms meet or exceed user privacy needs.
