From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 1 U.S. Privacy Environment

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Follow data flows

Follow data flows

From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 1 U.S. Privacy Environment

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Follow data flows

- [Narrator] Interviews provide you with important information about where to start your PII journey. They identify the business processes that handle the PII and the IT systems that support those transactions. But interviews can only help you to the extent that the people you interview are aware of the details of those processes. Once you've completed your interviews, it's time to roll up your sleeves and follow the data. Data flow diagrams show all of the ways that information enters and leave systems. You should create a data flow diagram for every system you're aware of that handles PII. The diagram should show the journey of the PII, including every location where it is stored and every business process that touches it. For example, your human resources system probably handles employee social security numbers. As you go through the data flow diagramming process, you might identify that SSNs are first collected from…

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