Listing privacy as a fundamental right is certainly part of it and certainly sends the interpretive message about how this is to be treated. Having a privacy impact assessment as an explicit legal requirement is helpful to organizations, because they know what they have to do. We can provide guidance through regulation or through my office, so that industry get this certainty and can thereby know why they're investing resources in doing this. It's to protect privacy, yes, but it's also because there is legislative backing.
On October 19th, 2023. See this statement in context.