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What is DPIA (data protection impact assessment)?
Data protection impact assessment (also called DPIA): A documented assessment of the privacy risks of a planned processing activity and the measures to reduce them. The GDPR requires one when processing is likely to pose high risk to individuals, and it is widely used as a good-practice step for AI features.
Data protection impact assessment: an example
Before launching a system that scores employee productivity from monitoring data, an employer completes an assessment listing risks to workers and safeguards.
Related terms
More AI ethics law product terms
- Data provenance
- Data residency
- Data subject
- Datasheet for datasets
- Deflection rate
- Demographic parity
- Differential privacy
- Disparate impact
Where you learn it
Data protection impact assessment is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.