Here at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit, the IAPP and AvePoint announced the release of a new free privacy impact assessment tool that will allow privacy professionals to better organize PIAs, involve other departments in the organization and complete PIAs more rapidly. Available from the front page of the IAPP’s Resource Center and called the AvePoint Privacy Impact Assessment System, or APIA, it is a piece of software organizations can install on their own servers, which is then accessible through a standard web browser. It allows privacy professionals to assign roles, track progress, offer up different questions for types of products and services and has many other advantages over the standard Word- or Excel-based systems currently in place.
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