scope:

This International Standard provides organizations with high-level guidance about how to assess their capability to manage privacy-related processes.

In particular, it

- specifies steps in assessing processes to determine privacy capability,

- specifies a set of levels for privacy capability assessment,

- provides guidance on the key process areas against which privacy capability can be assessed,

- provides guidance for those implementing process assessment, and

- provides guidance on how to integrate the privacy capability assessment into organizations operations.