Privacy maturity and the Accountability principle
Does your organisation’s privacy management framework help you achieve legal compliance, and support business strategies or goals?
Australian Privacy Principle 1, known as the Accountability principle, requires entities to establish and maintain an effective privacy management program. The OAIC calls this the ‘bedrock’ privacy principle.
Strong foundations
Strong privacy management programs are essential to:
- establish the foundations needed to enable compliance with privacy laws
- improve business productivity by delivering certainty and confidence for employees around the appropriate way to handle personal information
- reduce the number and cost of data breaches, and
- anticipate and adapt to different business and regulatory changes.
Salinger Privacy can assess the strength of your privacy program.
Our approach to maturity assessments
We use a Maturity Assessment Model, consisting of 21 attributes and 4 maturity levels.
By utilising a standardised assessment tool, our privacy maturity assessments:
- gauge the ability of an organisation’s privacy management framework to achieve legal compliance, and support business strategies or goals
- benchmark where an organisation is at, compared to regulatory expectations or industry practice, and to highlight those areas for improvement; and
- set a baseline measure, such that progress can be demonstrated over time, via repeat assessments.
Please get in touch to discuss how we can assist your organisation uplift its privacy maturity.
