What this control covers
The entity provides notice to data subjects about its privacy practices to meet the entity's objectives related to privacy. The notice is updated and communicated to data subjects in a timely manner for changes to the entity's privacy practices, including changes in the use of personal information, to meet the entity's objectives related to privacy.
Why it matters
Encryption and key management make data unreadable to attackers and unintelligible under data-breach safe-harbour clauses — a meaningful regulatory benefit.
How to implement
AWS
Default to SSE-KMS with customer-managed keys for S3/EBS/RDS/Secrets Manager. Use S3 Bucket Keys and S3 Block Public Access at the account level, and turn on S3 Object Lock on backup buckets for ransomware resilience.
Azure
Store secrets in Key Vault (HSM-backed where required) with soft-delete + purge protection; use customer-managed keys for Storage, SQL, and Azure Disk Encryption. Tag PII data via Microsoft Purview.
GCP
Use Cloud KMS with customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) for BigQuery, GCS, and Compute. Sensitive Data Protection (DLP API) inspects/de-identifies PII at scale.
Google Workspace
Enable client-side encryption for Drive/Docs and turn on Drive Labels + DLP rules to prevent external sharing of regulated data classes.
On-premises
Operate a Records of Processing Activity (RoPA) and a data-subject-request (DSR) workflow with named owners, SLA per regulation (GDPR 30 days, DPDP 30 days, CCPA 45 days). iCompaas users can track requests + evidence inside the Privacy module.
Evidence to collect
policy_document— A signed, version-controlled policy stating leadership intent and the named owner.
Signed policy or standard documents the safeguard. Focus: Privacy Notice to Data Subjects.
Quick checklist
- Information — Objectives / Protection
- Management — Objectives / Protection
- Privacy — Objectives / Protection
- Personal — Objectives / Protection
- Data — Objectives / Protection
Related articles on this site
- Data Privacy Regulations
- NIST 800-171 3.14.1 Identify, report, and correct system flaws in a timely manner.
- CMMC 2.0 SI.1.210 Identify, report, and correct information and information system flaws in a timely manner.
- Ensure that encryption at rest is enabled for Amazon Athena query results stored in Amazon S3 in order to secure data and meet compliance requirements for data-at-rest encryption.