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Privacy impact assessments and data protection impact assessments are valuable tools to gauge the ways projects, systems, programs, products or services impact the data an organization holds, and increasingly they are being required by law for certain data processing. Having a good understanding of what PIAs and DPIAs are, how to implement them and who needs to be involved can be the key to determining the true effect a new project will have on your organization.

This topic page provides resources, news, tools and guidance to gain more in-depth knowledge on PIAs and DPIAs.

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RESOURCE ARTICLE

Operational impacts of India’s DPDPA – DPIAs

This installment in the IAPP’s article series on India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act covers data protection impact assessments.
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ARTICLE

Key steps for meeting US state PIA obligations

This article outlines steps for managing comprehensive PIAs, including generating a project description, assessing data processing needs, and estimating data protection and privacy risks.
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WEB CONFERENCE

Building a Privacy Risk Framework for Accountability Through PIAs

In this web conference you will learn how to build a PIA framework that can establish the accountability needed to help manage privacy ris
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ARTICLE

The increasing importance of a DPIA

Adam Schlosser, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, founder of Bay Regulatory Strategy Group, explains why now is the time for companies to turn their attention to DPIAs.
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ARTICLE

What is and what isn’t subject to a DPIA under GDPR? An update

This article breaks down the draft lists from the EDPB, which offered its opinion on what activities need a data protection impact assessment.
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What triggers a DPIA under the GDPR?

This infographic helps determine what kinds of activities are more likely to trigger a mandatory data protection impact assessment under the GDPR.
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