DATA PROTECTION IMPACT ASSESSMENT (DPIA)

26 July 2018

• data protection
• GDPR
• general data protection regulation
• data privacy
• Solicitors Liverpool
• GDPR liverpool
• Data Processing
• Data Protection Officer
• Compliance
• Data Protection Impact Assessment
• data protection liverpool
• Compliance tools
• DPIA
• quality management system
• data protection risk assessment template

A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is a procedure which assists you in detecting and minimising data protection risks of a project. You should always complete a DPIA when undertaking tasks of a high risk, usually new tasks or projects.

In order to conduct an assessment, you can utilize certain applications in order to produce an efficient DPIA.

You can conduct a DPIA on more basic applications such as Word or Excel, which are suited to smaller businesses with lesser data input. These programs allow what is required of a DPIA, and they also help speed up the process of the assessment. Whilst also enabling a degree of flexibility, as a business can adapt templates to suit their business, rather than the business having to fit the demands of the software.

Another option to assist a business with DPIA, involves implementing a Quality Management System (QMS), with the support of a risk register and various infrastructure tools, which will allow larger businesses to monitor their performance and risk effectively.

There are various other online tools which will help you monitor DPIA including CNIL and ICO’s DPIA templates, which are freely available on their websites.

Try to remember that although software can be useful, a business should not rely solely on the software for definitive results. As it is the Data Protection Officer’s role to remain knowledgeable of the risks within the business, whilst using the tool as an enabler to record rather than analyse the data.