All research proposals involving human participants need to be submitted by the WHO staff member to the Ethics Review Committee (ERC) Secretariat. Principle investigators of protocols and interested parties can use this guide to demonstrate how ethics procedures work at WHO.
A privacy impact assessment (PIA) is an essential part of many projects and proposals, and can be used to help agencies identify the potential risks arising from their collection, use or handling of personal information, to find out if they are meeting their legal obligations. PIA focuses on identifying the ways a new proposal or operating system, or changes to an existing process may affect personal privacy, to help organisations make more informed decisions and better manage privacy risks.
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is an instrument for assessing the potential impacts on privacy of a process, information system, program, software module, device or other initiative which processes personal information and in consultation with stakeholders, for taking actions as necessary to treat privacy risk. This document is intended to provide scalable guidance that can be applied to all initiatives.
This checklist should be considered before a new project is launched, when new sources of data or technology are being incorporated into an existing project, or when an existing project is substantially changed. In particular, this assessment should consider every stage of the project’s data life cycle: data collection, data transmission, data analysis, data storage, and publication of results.
Explains, with examples, the rights of data subjects in the Philippines and how to file a complaint in case personal data has been misused, maliciously disclosed, or improperly disposed, or if any of the rights discussed here have been violated.