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 Spain Setting A New Standard For GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is a data protection law that requires all organizations operating in European Union (EU) member states to comply with the laws on securing the personal data of those residing in the EU. This law came into effect on May 25, 2018, and standardizes data privacy laws in Europe.
The law also allows European citizens to have more control of their personal data. Under this law, organizations should ask their customers whether they agree to be governed by the privacy policies and consent of GDPR.
Organizations are further required to conduct a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) for projects that bear a high-risk potential. Many countries that operate under GDPR aren’t strict when it comes to enforcing the requirements of GDPR. Only 68 countries have been fined from the time GDPR became effective. Ireland issued only four fines despite being the home of
By Neil Hodge2021-01-28T20:36:00+00:00
It is probably fair to say much of the enforcement focus regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been on those regulators that have historically talked tough about preserving privacy namely, data protection authorities (DPAs) in Germany, Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom.
Yet, despite some headline-grabbing penalties, these countries have not shown the kind of enforcement records experts had predicted.
Indeed, since the GDPR came into force, between them they account for just 68 fines around an eighth of the total 536 issued to date, according to the GDPR Enforcement Tracker. Even Ireland the European home to Big Tech firms has issued just four fines, and only one against a tech giant €450,000
By Neil Hodge2020-12-10T21:13:00+00:00
If European compliance officers think 2020 was bad, wait until they get a load of 2021.
Many of the problems the profession faced in 2020 will remain in place going into the new year such as remote working and the associated compliance risks around fraud, cyber-security, data protection, and the lack of consolidated oversight but new risks will also present new challenges, Brexit being one of them. Irrespective of whether the European Union and the United Kingdom can agree to a trade deal, legislative and regulatory changes are likely to appear across a range of industry sectors as a result of the U.K.’s decision to leave the single market.