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Towards an Effective Privacy Impact and Risk Assessment Methodology: Risk Analysis

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Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) play a crucial role in providing privacy protection for data subjects and supporting risk management. From an engineering perspective, the core of a PIA is a risk assessment, which typically follows a step-by-step process of risk identification and risk mitigation. In order for a PIA to be holistic and effective, it needs to be complemented by an appropriate privacy risk model that considers legal, organisational, societal and technical aspects. We propose a data-centric approach for identifying and analysing potential privacy risks in a comprehensive manner.

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Alshammari, M., Simpson, A. (2018). Towards an Effective Privacy Impact and Risk Assessment Methodology: Risk Analysis. In: Garcia-Alfaro, J., Herrera-Joancomartí, J., Livraga, G., Rios, R. (eds) Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology. DPM CBT 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11025. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00305-0_16

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