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Data Protection Impact Assessment

What is Data Protection Impact Assessment?

A systematic process for evaluating the potential privacy impact of a project or system that involves processing personal data, required under GDPR for high-risk processing.

Privacy and Data Protection

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data protection impact assessment. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on data protection impact assessment

Requirements naming data protection impact assessment across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

GDPR3 controls

Where a type of processing, in particular using new technologies and taking account of the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, carry out an assessment of the i...

GDPR-Art.35 · Data protection impact assessment

Section 25E (added by 2018 GDPR Implementation Act) establishes Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) requirement for processing likely to result in high risk to rights and freedoms of natural persons.

HU-INFOTV-Governance-DPIA-Privacy-by-Design-Risk-Section-25E · HU Infotv Section 25E - Data Protection Impact Assessment + Privacy by Design + Risk + Section 25F Prior Consultation

Requirements for conducting DPIAs when processing carries high risk to data subjects

FADP-7 · Data Protection Impact Assessment (Articles 9-10)

Undertake a DPIA to assess and mitigate risks to children arising from data processing.

Standard 2 · Data Protection Impact Assessments

AAIP Resolution 47/2018 recommends a Privacy Impact Assessment for high risk processing, including large scale sensitive data, profiling, monitoring of public areas, and biometric data.

AR-25326-AAIP-DPIA · Data Protection Impact Assessment Recommendation
Bahrain PDPL1 control

Data protection impact assessments. Control from Bahrain PDPL framework, domain: Bahrain PDPL: Data Governance.

BH-PDPL-21 · Data protection impact assessments

Questions people ask about data protection impact assessment

What is Data Protection Impact Assessment?
A systematic process for evaluating the potential privacy impact of a project or system that involves processing personal data, required under GDPR for high-risk processing.
Why is Data Protection Impact Assessment important for compliance?
Data Protection Impact Assessment is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding data protection impact assessment helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Data Protection Impact Assessment?
Data Protection Impact Assessment appears in the requirement text of GDPR, Hungary Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information (Info Act), Switzerland New Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP/nDSG, 2023), UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code), Argentina Law 25.326 (Personal Data Protection Law). Across these standards we have identified 11 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Data Protection Impact Assessment?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how data protection impact assessment applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Data Protection Impact Assessment applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.