Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• Introduction
• The PIA is a checklist or tool to ensure that
  new or modified electronic collections of
  information on individuals
• - Are evaluated for privacy risks.
• - Are designed with Privacy Act life
  cycle management requirements (collection,
  maintenance, use, safeguards and records
  scheduling).
• - Ensure that appropriate privacy
  protection measures are in place.

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• When do you Complete a PIA?
• At different stages of a projects life cycle
  -each phase may have new privacy risks.
• When collecting information from websites
  (eforms, surveys, etc)

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• When Do You Submit Copies?
• DOI IT Security Asset-Valuations
• DOI IT Security Certification and Accredidations
• OMB Exhibit 300s
• Identify on websites collecting information from
  the public
• Identify in Privacy Act system of records notice
  in the Federal Register
• Identify in OMB Information Collection Clearance
  packages

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• DOI Requirements
• DOIs PIA requirements extend to all systems that
  contain information on individuals (includes
  systems with information on BOTH employees and
  members of the public)
• (OMBs provides option in (OMB - M-03-22)).
• DOI requires that all systems perform a
  preliminary review for information on
  individuals - DONT CONFUSE THIS WITH DOING A
  COMPLETE PIA

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• DOI Requirements
• The preliminary review is documentation to
  verify that weve looked at all systems to
  determine if they maintain information on
  individuals (keep it with the metadata).
• Doing this preliminary review (completing The
  PIA template questions up to B.1.a.) will help
  you to determine if you need to continue on and
  complete the PIA.

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• DOI Requirements
• If you determine that there is no information on
  individuals in the system then there is no point
  in completing the rest of the PIA document.

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• OMBs Requirement for
• Exhibit 300s
• OMBs requirement for Exhibit 300s is narrower
  than DOIs.
• OMB only requires a PIA for systems that maintain
  information on individuals WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE
  PUBLIC.

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• OMBs Requirement for
• Exhibit 300s
• OMB has explained that General Support Systems
  would require a PIA when it maintains
  information on individuals (i.e., collects,
  stores, uses, disposes of the information).
• In regard to networks, if these are just conduits
  of information and not maintained in regard to
  the above a PIA is not required.

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• OMBs Requirement for
• Exhibit 300s
• OMB is NOT interested in the DOI preliminary
  reviews or PIAs done for systems that maintain
  information on employees (optional)
• Mark No PIA when there is found to be no
  information on individuals in the system
  (Remember the preliminary review is NOT a
  PIA)

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Understanding the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)

• References
• OMB Memo of 9/26/03 (M-03-22) on implementing the
  Privacy Provisions of the E-Government Act
• OCIO Directive of 10/18/02 on implementing PIAs
• Privacy reference material on the DOI Privacy
  Program Webpage
• www.doi.gov/ocio/privacy