The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation established by the European Union to protect the privacy and personal data of EU citizens. It applies to all organizations operating within the EU and those outside the EU that offer goods or services to EU citizens.
To comply with GDPR, organizations must:
- Implement Data Protection Principles. These principles include lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, retention limitation, and data security.
- Apply Rights of the Data Subject. Organizations must respect and facilitate the exercise of data subject rights, including the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and object processing.
- Use Technical and Organizational Measures. This includes pseudonymization and encryption of personal data, ensuring ongoing confidentiality, integrity, and resilience of processing systems, and a process for regularly testing and evaluating the effectiveness of these measures.
- Maintain a Record of Processing Activities. Organizations must keep a detailed record of their data processing activities, including the purposes of the processing, a description of the categories of data subjects and personal data, and where applicable, transfers of personal data to a third country.
- Provide Training to all employees about the GDPR and how it applies to the organization’s practices. This includes awareness of the principles, data subject rights, data breach response, and more.