Technology Services’ privacy team has the unique opportunity to enable, facilitate and advise university stakeholders on privacy principles and data engineering practices that create greater transparency and trust.
- We empower individuals to take an active role in understanding and managing their personal information, such as providing consent.
- We create high level awareness of potential moral, ethical and legal considerations when personal information is used.
- We partner with various compliance officers, counsel, and others to create a single point of contact for matters related to privacy.
- We work with data stewards, governance, and data authorities to inform and advise in their data use decisions.
- We create awareness of privacy considerations for units and University stakeholders and connect individuals to appropriate compliance and legal advisers to aide their ability to meet good privacy practices and regulatory compliance.
How we help
Our team offers a wide range of services including privacy impact assessments. Our team consults with you to enable and support you and your unit to better meet your objectives and obligations when using Personally identifiable information. To help us better understand your unit needs, you can begin by completing the following tools. A team member will contact you to begin the conversation.
- Privacy threshold assessment: https://go.illinois.edu/PTA Fill out this survey to begin a consultation.
- Privacy impact questionnaire: Fill out this questionnaire https://go.illinois.edu/PIA to begin a privacy impact assessment where our team will analyze how Personally Identifiable Information is handled and make recommendations to reduce privacy risk as well as to promote compliance with applicable regulations.
- Privacy impact questionnaire (research): Fill out this questionnaire https://go.illinois.edu/PIA-Research for the privacy team to answer questions about your research project. We advise on reidentification risk, data minimization and other privacy principles in research protocols to protect participants’ privacy.Â
Contact the privacy team
Contact us at privacy@illinois.edu when seeking advice to create/collect new Personally Identifiable Information, or whenever you use existing PII in a new way.
Privacy team members
- Sheena Bishop, Senior Privacy Analyst
- Stephen Collette, Privacy Operations Manager
- Mendi Drayton, Senior Data Breach and Incident Analyst
- Ece Gumusel, Privacy Analyst
- Michael Wrobel, Privacy Analyst