GDPR compliance
GDPR – what this means for your business
General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, has overhauled how businesses process and handle data. In fact, GDPR can be considered as the world’s strongest set of data protection rules, which enhance how people can access information about them and places limits on what organisations can do with that personal data.
The crucial thing about what qualifies as personal data is that it allows a person to be identified. Personal data is so important under GDPR because individuals, organisations, and companies that are either ‘controllers’ or ‘processors’ of it are covered by the law.
Controllers are the main decision-makers – they exercise overall control over the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Processors act on behalf of, and only on the instructions of, the relevant controller.
Control your data
As such, Controllers have stricter obligations under GDPR than Processors, but in essence data must be handled in line with 7 key principles: –
- Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency
- purpose limitation
- data minimisation
- accuracy
- storage limitation
- integrity and confidentiality (security)
- and accountability
The regulations surrounding these principles are lengthy and detailed. But, here at CTO, we can help you navigate the implications for your business.
