What are the end results of an effective PIA process?

Ideally the end results of an effective PIA are:

the identification of the project’s privacy impacts;
appreciation of those impacts from the perspectives of all stakeholders;
an understanding of the acceptability of the project and its features by the organisations and people that will be affected by it;
identification and assessment of less privacy-invasive alternatives;
identification of ways in which negative impacts on privacy can be avoided;
identification of ways to lessen negative impacts on privacy;
where negative impacts on privacy are unavoidable, clarity as to the business need that justifies them; and
documentation and publication of the outcomes.

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