A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is a structured review of a processing activity's privacy risks. While DPIAs are most clearly expected of Significant Data Fiduciaries, the practical triggers are large-scale processing, sensitive data, systematic monitoring or profiling, and children's data. If your activity hits these, a DPIA is strongly advisable. This checker tells you whether a DPIA is recommended for your processing.
Answer four questions to see whether a Data Protection Impact Assessment is recommended for your processing.
A Data Protection Impact Assessment is how you show you considered privacy risk before launching a risky processing activity. Under the DPDP framework, DPIAs are particularly associated with Significant Data Fiduciaries, but the sensible triggers apply to anyone: large scale, sensitive data, monitoring or profiling, and children's data.
Running a short DPIA when these triggers fire is cheap insurance — it documents your reasoning and mitigations, which is exactly the accountability evidence a regulator looks for.
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