GDPR compliance and DPIA preparation.
Kaamos≥ brings privacy-relevant assets, vendors and control evidence together. Its DPIA workflow links a processing record to an assessment, records risks and retains human review decisions. Your organisation remains accountable for its processing; the supervisory authority retains its regulatory role.
What Kaamos helps prepare
- Connect security and privacy evidence
- Kaamos connects privacy-relevant assets, vendors and controls. Review the security evidence against the processing activity and the risk to people.
- Prepare a DPIA from a processing record
- Link a record of processing to a DPIA in Kaamos, describe necessity and proportionality, and maintain the assessment's risk register. Screening patterns identify work for human review; they do not settle legal applicability.
- Keep the review context
- Kaamos records the human applicability rationale, accountable reviewer, source review and DPO decision. Decision history and a downloadable PDF make that review record available for inspection.
What stays with people
- Lawfulness and applicability
- The controller determines the lawful basis and whether a DPIA is required, with appropriate advice. A screening result or a completed form cannot establish that the processing is lawful.
- Assessment and safeguards
- People evaluate necessity, proportionality, risks and safeguards. The DPO advises where applicable; the controller remains responsible for the processing and implementation.
- Authority consultation
- Where prior consultation is required, your organisation engages the supervisory authority. An internal approval or exported PDF is not an authority decision or a guarantee of GDPR compliance.
Requirements and scope
Organisations must take technical and organisational security measures appropriate to the risks of their personal-data processing. Evidence should describe the processing and the safeguards actually in place.
A DPIA is required where processing is likely to create a high risk to individuals' rights and freedoms. Conduct it before processing begins and keep it under review. The Commission explains when prior consultation with the data protection authority is needed.
- European Commission: security of processing, DPIAs and DPO responsibilities
- EDPB: DPIA contents and prior consultation
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679: official legal reference
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Common questions
- Can Kaamos help prepare a DPIA?
- Yes. Kaamos links a processing record to a DPIA, stores necessity and proportionality notes and a risk register, and records human applicability, source review and DPO decisions. The assessment can be downloaded as a PDF.
- Does screening decide whether a DPIA is legally required?
- No. Screening patterns identify work for review. A person records the applicability decision and rationale; the controller remains responsible, with DPO advice where applicable.
- Does using Kaamos make our processing GDPR compliant?
- No. Kaamos helps organise evidence and the assessment record. People must establish lawfulness, evaluate risks, implement safeguards and consult the supervisory authority where required. Software approval is not regulatory approval.
Trace one requirement before choosing a tool.
Bring a processing activity and its proposed change. Ask to see the linked DPIA, risk register, source freshness and human decision history, including what remains unresolved before processing starts.