Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

The DPIA process aims at providing assurance that controllers adequately address privacy and data protection risks of ‘risky’ processing operations.
Active
In European Union (EU)

By providing a structured way of thinking about the risks to data subjects and how to mitigate them, DPIAs help organisations to comply with the requirement of ‘data protection by design’ where it is needed the most, i.e. for ‘risky’ processing operations.

Parent organization:

European Union

Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
Org. type: Government / public sector
Project type: Legislation
Last modified: Jan 28, 2026 Added: Aug 19, 2025
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