Data Protection Impact Assessment for a Fintech App

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Overview

What this challenge is about.

Perform a DPIA on a fintech app's AI loan feature, identify 5 risks, and design mitigations. Get a verifiable certificate.

The scenario

The fintech app has 100,000 users, processes financial data, and is regulated by the FCA. The new feature uses transaction history and credit scores to offer loans via a third-party lender.

CredentialBlockchain-anchored

ShareableLinkedIn-ready

LanguageEnglish

PaceSelf-paced

The Brief

What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.

Conduct a GDPR-compliant Data Protection Impact Assessment for an AI-driven loan feature in a fintech app, including risk mitigation and consent design.

Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate

Conduct a DPIA in compliance with GDPR Article 35
Identify and assess privacy risks in AI-driven financial services
Design consent mechanisms that meet GDPR standards
Apply data minimization principles to a real-world product feature

Program Fit

Where this fits in your program.

Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.

IT Governance and Security

Master · Digital

Strong alignment

This challenge maps to IT Governance and Security at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.

Skills

Skills you'll demonstrate.

Each one shows up on your verified credential.

Careers

Career paths this challenge builds toward

Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:

Career paths this builds toward

Canonical roles

Data Protection OfficerFuture-proof
Every time a user clicks accept on a cookie banner, somewhere a data protection officer has thought carefully about what that consent actually means. DPOs sit at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights, ensuring an organization handles personal data in ways that hold up under GDPR, CCPA, and increasingly the EU AI Act. The work is part detective, part diplomat: mapping where data flows, advising product teams on privacy-by-design, and responding when something goes wrong. Students who care about both ethics and how software actually works tend to gravitate here. Strong DPOs catch issues during design reviews, not after breaches. The path runs through privacy law, information security fundamentals, and learning tools like OneTrust.
Engineering & IT

One more thing

You can put a credential on your CV by Friday.

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