UK AADC Standard 2 - DPIA review and publication
Keep DPIAs under continuous review; update for new features or processing changes
Where this comes from
Provision: Standard 2 - DPIA review and publication
Instrument: UK Age Appropriate Design Code
Citation: Information Commissioner's Office, Age Appropriate Design: a code of practice for online services, Standard 2
Text version: ICO Age Appropriate Design Code (statutory code under Data Protection Act 2018 s 123), issued 2 Sept 2020
Who it applies to
It applies when all of these are true:
- Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18
…unless:
- Review frequency may be reduced for low-risk processing where no changes have occurred. (ICO DPIA Guidance)
Scope in the source's own terms
- Service processes data of children
- Service operates under GDPR (EU scope; block moved from UK-GDPR authorship)
What engineering work it implies
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Implementation or documented process meets the reviewed acceptance criteria; identify the tested version and deployment status separately
- Configure defaults from the assessed source and purpose; do not enable data collection or processing merely because this task exists
- Validate behavior for the assessed actors and use cases, including applicable guest or administrator paths
- UI clearly communicates what the feature does to users
- API returns appropriate error codes when feature blocks an action
Evidence an auditor expects
- Assessment documentDocument review
DPIA review log
Record of DPIA reviews triggered by changes, with dates and outcomes
- Process recordDocument review
Change management process linking to DPIA review
Process documentation showing DPIA review is triggered by feature changes
Questions people ask
- Does UK AADC Standard 2 - DPIA review and publication apply to my service?
- It applies when Service is likely to be accessed by children under 18. It does not apply where Review frequency may be reduced for low-risk processing where no changes have occurred. (ICO DPIA Guidance).
- From when does this apply?
- UK AADC Standard 2 - DPIA review and publication applies from 2 September 2021. Its current status is: in force.
- What evidence does an auditor expect?
- DPIA review log; Change management process linking to DPIA review.
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