What Is GDPR?
What Is GDPR?
Who Does GDPR apply to?
GDPR applies to any organisation, regardless of its location, that processes the personal data of individuals residing in the UK, EU and EEA. This includes businesses, non-profits, and government agencies.
What constitutes 'personal data' under GDPR?
Personal data refers to any information relating to an identifiable person. This includes names, addresses, email addresses, IP addresses, genetic data, biometric data, and more.
GDPR is based on several principles, including lawfulness, fairness, and transparency in data processing; purpose limitation; data minimisation; accuracy; storage limitation; integrity, confidentiality; and accountability.
Individuals have several rights, including the right to access their personal data, the right to rectify incorrect data, the right to erasure (also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’), the right to data portability, and the right to object to the processing of their data under certain circumstances.
Organisations that fail to comply with GDPR may face significant fines and penalties. The fines can be substantial, depending on the severity of the violation, reaching up to €20 million or 4% of the company’s global annual turnover, whichever is higher.
To comply with the GDPR, organisations have a duty to take adequate measures in protecting their privacy data. There are multiple steps organisations need to follow in order to ensure compliance.
Here are a few examples:
– Conducting a data privacy impact assessment (PIA),
– Implement appropriate security measures,
– Apply the appropriate legal basis of processing (of which there are 6 defined forms of legal processing),
– Obtain valid consent for data processing if appropriate,
– Appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO) where necessary,
and more.
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These questions and their respective answers are a starting point for understanding GDPR, but the regulation itself is comprehensive, and specific situations may require further analysis and guidance from legal or compliance professionals.
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