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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 →

Where monitoring, particularly with new technology, probably carries high risk, such as systematic and extensive automated evaluation with significant effects, the employer must assess its impact on data protection (a DPIA), and if the residual risk remains hi...

article-29-working-party-opinion-2-2017-on-data-processing-at-work-wp249::3.2.2 · 3.2.2 Data protection impact assessment for high-risk monitoring and prior consultation if residual risk stays high →

Processing personal data by automated monitoring or decision-making systems is deemed likely to result in a high risk under GDPR Article 35(1), so a DPIA is always required;

eu-platform-work-directive-directive-2024-2831::8(1) · Article 8(1) Data protection impact assessment with the views of persons performing platform work →

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 →
Mauritius DPA2 controls

Where processing is likely to result in a high risk to data subjects' rights and freedoms by its nature, scope, context and purposes, the controller or processor must assess its impact before processing, in particular for systematic and extensive automated eva...

mauritius-dpa::34 · Section 34: carry out a data protection impact assessment before high-risk processing →

Before processing operations that by nature, scope, context or purpose may pose significant risks to data subjects' rights, the controller must assess their impact on data protection;

paraguay-law-no-7593-2025-on-personal-data-protection::14 · Article 14 Data protection impact assessment →

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 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Data Protection Impact Assessment?
Data Protection Impact Assessment appears in the requirement text of GDPR, Article 29 Working Party Opinion 2/2017 on Data Processing at Work (WP249), EU Platform Work Directive (Directive 2024/2831), Hungary Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information (Info Act), Mauritius DPA. Across these standards we have identified 13 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 1,016 frameworks.

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