How do privacy audits differ from privacy assessments?
How do privacy audits differ from privacy assessments?
Privacy audits differ from privacy assessments primarily because they are conducted by external parties. This distinction ensures an unbiased evaluation and adherence to specific criteria or standards, which might not always be the case with internal privacy assessments.
Audits differ from assessments in that they are evidence-based. See chapter 7.3.1 from the IAPP cipm book Privacy Program Management IAPP
Letter B is right.
D. They are conducted by external parties. Privacy audits, especially when we think of them in contexts like financial or compliance audits, are often associated with external, third-party reviews to ensure impartiality and adherence to specific criteria or standards.
Not all audits are third party