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Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) & Privacy by Design Training Course

Shows how to use DPIAs to identify, evaluate and treat privacy risks before and during new projects and systems, building privacy into design from the outset.

DPGP · Data Privacy, Governance & ProtectionAll Levels#2564ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Data, Analytics & Digital TransformationCategories:Data Privacy, Governance & Protection

Course Overview

This advanced practical course develops the capabilities required to use Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) as an effective mechanism for identifying, evaluating, and treating privacy risks before and during the implementation of projects, systems, and processes involving personal data. It emphasizes a proactive approach that integrates privacy into planning, design, implementation, and change management. The programme provides a structured approach to conducting DPIAs, from defining scope and identifying processing activities to assessing necessity and proportionality, evaluating privacy risks, selecting appropriate controls, documenting decisions, and monitoring mitigation actions. It also focuses on Privacy by Design and its application across systems, services, processes, and emerging technologies. Participants examine data minimization, purpose limitation, access management, retention, security, transparency, and accountability as design considerations that should be addressed from the earliest stages of development. Through practical scenarios and case-based exercises, participants will develop complete DPIAs, analyse processing activities, evaluate design alternatives, define privacy controls, document residual risks, and establish review mechanisms that support defensible and auditable privacy decisions.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyse the purpose, scope, and key requirements of Data Protection Impact Assessments.
  • Identify processing activities that require or warrant a DPIA.
  • Map data flows and personal data lifecycles within the assessment scope.
  • Evaluate the necessity and proportionality of proposed personal data processing.
  • Identify privacy risks and potential impacts on individuals.
  • Apply structured methodologies to assess risk likelihood and severity.
  • Design appropriate controls to reduce privacy risks to acceptable levels.
  • Apply Privacy by Design principles across projects, systems, and services.
  • Integrate data minimization, retention, access, security, and transparency into solution design.
  • Evaluate technical and operational alternatives from a privacy perspective.
  • Prepare and document comprehensive, reviewable DPIAs.
  • Establish mechanisms for monitoring controls and updating assessments when circumstances change.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for Data Protection Officers, Privacy Officers, Privacy Programme Managers, Data Governance and Compliance Professionals, Risk Managers, Legal and Regulatory Specialists, and Information Security Professionals. It is also suitable for Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Data Architects, IT Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Digital Service Designers, Product Teams, and System Development Professionals involved in designing or implementing solutions that process personal data. The programme is particularly relevant to organizations seeking to embed privacy throughout the project and system lifecycle or establish a consistent approach to assessing privacy risks before introducing new processes, systems, technologies, or services.

Learning Outcomes

  • Determine when a DPIA is required or appropriate.
  • Define DPIA scope, objectives, stakeholders, and assessment boundaries.
  • Document personal data processing activities and data flows.
  • Assess the necessity and proportionality of proposed processing.
  • Identify privacy risks and potential impacts on individuals.
  • Analyse and prioritize privacy risks according to likelihood and severity.
  • Select appropriate controls and mitigation measures.
  • Apply Privacy by Design principles to systems, services, and business processes.
  • Evaluate technical and design options against privacy requirements.
  • Produce comprehensive and evidence-based DPIA documentation.
  • Define stakeholder responsibilities and monitor mitigation actions.
  • Review and update DPIAs when processing activities, technologies, or risks materially change.

Course Outline

Day 1

DPIA Foundations, Scope & Processing Assessment

  • Role of DPIAs in privacy risk management.
  • When and why DPIAs are conducted.
  • Defining assessment scope, objectives, and stakeholders.
  • Identifying personal data processing activities.
  • Data inventories, sources, users, and recipients.
  • Mapping data flows and personal data lifecycles.
  • Identifying high-risk processing activities and technologies.
  • Defining roles and responsibilities within the DPIA process.
  • Documentation and accountability requirements.
  • Practical Application: Define the scope of a DPIA for a simulated system or project and develop an initial personal data processing map.
Day 2

Processing Analysis & Privacy Risk Assessment

  • Assessing the necessity of personal data processing.
  • Evaluating proportionality and purpose specification.
  • Data minimization and limiting unnecessary collection.
  • Identifying potential impacts on individuals.
  • Identifying privacy risks and their sources.
  • Assessing risk likelihood and severity.
  • Classifying and prioritizing privacy risks.
  • Analysing high-risk processing scenarios.
  • Establishing acceptable levels of residual risk.
  • Practical Application: Analyse a personal data processing activity, identify privacy risks, assess their severity and likelihood, and prioritize mitigation requirements.
Day 3

Privacy by Design & Control Development

  • Principles and strategic value of Privacy by Design.
  • Integrating privacy throughout the project and system lifecycle.
  • Designing processes based on data minimization.
  • Access controls and permission management.
  • Data retention and secure deletion.
  • Security of personal data during storage, transfer, and processing.
  • Transparency and consent considerations.
  • Data separation and de-identification techniques where appropriate.
  • Preventive, detective, and corrective privacy controls.
  • Practical Application: Redesign a simulated system or service to embed Privacy by Design principles and reduce identified privacy risks.
Day 4

Risk Treatment, Documentation & Review

  • Selecting appropriate privacy risk treatment measures.
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of proposed controls.
  • Comparing technical and operational alternatives.
  • Identifying residual privacy risks.
  • Documenting decisions, assumptions, and rationale.
  • Assigning responsibilities and implementation deadlines.
  • Reviewing DPIAs with legal, technical, security, and business stakeholders.
  • Monitoring implementation of mitigation measures.
  • Updating DPIAs following material changes.
  • Practical Application: Complete a DPIA, develop a privacy risk treatment plan, document key decisions, and assess residual risks.
Day 5

DPIA Governance & Enterprise Implementation

  • Establishing an enterprise DPIA methodology.
  • Integrating DPIAs into project and change management processes.
  • Review and approval checkpoints before system or service launch.
  • Maintaining a DPIA register.
  • Monitoring controls and privacy performance indicators.
  • Managing changes that affect privacy risk levels.
  • Integrating DPIAs with enterprise risk, compliance, and security processes.
  • Audit readiness and regulatory review.
  • Continuous improvement of DPIA and Privacy by Design practices.
  • Final Workshop: Develop and present a complete DPIA for a simulated organizational case covering processing activities, necessity and proportionality, privacy risks, controls, residual risks, mitigation actions, governance, and review mechanisms.

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Marbella · 9 – 13 Nov 2026 · Classroom

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