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A Process for Data Protection Impact Assessment Under the European General Data Protection Regulation

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With the General Data Protection Regulation there will be a legal obligation for controllers to conduct a Data Protection Impact Assessment for the first time. This paper examines the new provisions in detail and examines ways for their successful implementation. It proposes a process which operationalizes established requirements ensuring the appropriate attention to fundamental rights as warranted by the GDPR, incorporates the legislation’s new requirements and can be adapted to suit the controller’s needs.

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    Note that Article 32(1)(b) GDPR, in addition to the classical security goals confidentiality, integrity, and availability, also stipulates the resilience of systems and services processing personal data as an objective.

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This paper was partially funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, grant agreement no. 261698 (SAPIENT project) and the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) for the project Forum Privatheit – Selbstbestimmtes Leben in der Digitalen Welt (Privacy-Forum), www.forum-privatheit.de.

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Bieker, F., Friedewald, M., Hansen, M., Obersteller, H., Rost, M. (2016). A Process for Data Protection Impact Assessment Under the European General Data Protection Regulation. In: Schiffner, S., Serna, J., Ikonomou, D., Rannenberg, K. (eds) Privacy Technologies and Policy. APF 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9857. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44760-5_2

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