Data Protection Impact Assessment for a Smart City IoT Project

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Overview

What this challenge is about.

You conduct a DPIA for a smart city parking pilot, assess risks, and deliver a compliance report to earn your verifiable certificate.

The scenario

Barcelona's municipal government is committed to smart city initiatives but faces scrutiny from privacy advocates. The pilot is funded by an EU grant and must comply with GDPR.

CredentialBlockchain-anchored

ShareableLinkedIn-ready

LanguageEnglish

PaceSelf-paced

The Brief

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

How can the city implement a smart parking system that respects data protection principles while achieving operational efficiency?

Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate

Understand the DPIA process and when it is mandatory
Apply the principles of data protection by design and by default
Identify and assess privacy risks in IoT systems
Develop mitigation strategies for high-risk processing
Communicate complex legal and technical issues to non-experts

Program Fit

Where this fits in your program.

Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.

IT Law and Data Protection

Bachelor · Law

Strong alignment

This challenge maps to IT Law and Data Protection at the Bachelor 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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