GDPR Articles

In the era of ever-increasing usage of Internet-based services, the amount of information we share and give to others is an order of magnitude larger than just a couple of decades ago. The consequences of such oversharing can, at times, be severe. What if users demand erasure of such data?

Employees are the lifeblood of any successful company. That’s why investing in employee education is one of the best moves you could make. With the advent of the GDPR, training your employees in privacy related matters has become almost obligatory. Here are some tips for what to focus your training on.

Wrongful processing of sensitive personal data can carry huge penalties. Do not let that happen to you: read our handy guide to dealing with sensitive data and sail smoothly into the new regulatory environment.

The General Data Protection Regulation will be implemented on 25 May 2018. Its myriad provisions and the looming threat of steep fines is what keeps most company owners and heads of privacy divisions awake at night.

Charities and NGOs will likely not appreciate the GDPR too much, as it is entirely uncharitable towards them. In general, these organisations must comply with all the relevant provisions of the GDPR, no exceptions allowed – but there are certain regulations that apply specifically to them.

With the General Data Protection Regulation coming into force next May, there is less and less time to ensure compliance. The GDPR is a product of several years of intense negotiations and debating – and in its final form it sill presents a marked, updated improvement over the currently active Data Protection Directive.

In its general sense, forum shopping refers to the practice of litigants filing before the court they feel would be the most favourable towards getting a favourable judgment. In this article, we will discuss ‘forum shopping’ as outlined in the Article 29 Working Party guidance for the GDPR.

The GDPR requirement for appointing a Data Protection Officer has caused quite a stir, panic even, among companies. A DPO is a new concept to many companies, especially those from outside the EU, so they are quite alarmed when it comes to this issue. And they should be!

One of the novel provisions in the new General Data Protection Regulation certainly is the obligation of some organizations to appoint a data protection officer (DPO). But who DPO actually is and is everyone obligated to appoint one? We’ll discuss this in the next few paragraphs.

Whether we are talking about your own confidential business data or data about your consumers or users, a time will come when it will need deletion. of your company at risk, since the threat of fines is so great. How do we go about it? Well, there are several options.

The General Data Protection Regulation is the new piece of legislation that will be implemented on 25 May 2018. It brings a host of changes that aim to harmonise and streamline the privacy protection rules within the European Union – including the obligation to report security breaches. 

The General Data Protection Regulation may appear to be only tangentially related to the problem of cyber security, since it mostly concerns privacy-related issues and merits of reporting. However, such a view would be wrong.