DPIA

Data Protection Impact Assessment: the GDPR Article 35 assessment of processing likely to result in high risk to individuals 1, maintained in this discipline as a versioned artefact, not a one-off document.

Developed in
ch. 19, The DPIA for AI systems
Chapters
ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 19, Privacy & AI
Contrast with
FRIA
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

18 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

2 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) (Arts. 4(1), 4(5), 4(7), 4(8), 4(12), 4(14), 5, 6, 9, 12(3), 22, 25, 28(2) and 28(4), 30, 33, 35; Recital 26). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2016-04-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). DPIA. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/dpia. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026dpia,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{DPIA}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/dpia}
}