of its passage, the GDPR was the most comprehensive data privacy regulation. It harmonized separate data protection regulations from across the European Union (EU). It also extended the reach of those regulations to apply to non-EU organizations if they process personal data collected in the EU....
The GDPR requires the controller and the processor to designate a DPO to oversee data security strategy and GDPR compliance. Companies are required to have a DPO if they process or store large amounts of EU citizen data, process or store special personal data, regularly monitor da...
The GDPR aims to protect personal data at all stages of data processing and it identifies two different entities that both have obligations: data controllers and data processors. What are data controllers and data processors? A data controller is an entity that determines the purp...
TheGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)is a law enacted in the European Union ensuring websites that collect personal data comply with data protection and privacy regulations to protect citizens. The regulations are meant to give individuals more control over their personal information, making GDPR...
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GDPR functions as a regulation rather than a directive. Under EU law, regulations are laws that apply to any EU member state and that dictate orders and rules to abide by. A directive, on the other hand, sets out a result to achieve without dictating how to achieve that result. ...
What are the 7 principles of GDPR? The GDPR lays out the following seven basic principles on which it bases its regulations and rules of compliance related to personal data: Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. The data subject must be clearly informed about how their data will be used. Purp...
If the organization processes personal data in the EU, then the GDPR applies. So, a purely U.S.-based business serving only customers in the U.S.—regardless of whether they’re an EU or U.S. citizen—does not need to comply with the GDPR. Furthermore, if you are targeting U.S....
The conditions of applicability of the GDPR are set in GDPR text Articles 2 & 3 from a material and a territorial point of view. To determine, whether a specific processing activity is exempt from its applicability, we have to consider both aspects. ...
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a data protection ruling that began in 2018. Learn the meaning of GDPR and it's regulations.