Accountability
Assignment of responsibility for system decisions, controls, evidence, and remediation.
What Accountability does not show
Logging an action does not identify who had authority or duty to prevent it.
Definitions that name Accountability
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Questions about Accountability
What is Accountability?
Assignment of responsibility for system decisions, controls, evidence, and remediation.
What does Accountability not show or guarantee?
Logging an action does not identify who had authority or duty to prevent it.
Which area of the glossary does Accountability belong to?
Governance and rights: Who may use content for what: rights reservations, opt-outs, licences, model documentation and the accountability vocabulary around them.
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