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WILL DATA PROTECTION CHANGES AFFECT YOU ?
If you hold data on individuals , you will be affected when the Data Protection Act ( DPA ) is replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) in 2018 . This change will bring significant implications to any businesses processing |
personal data , particularly those with e-commerce , marketing , retail and wholesale business operations . The EU GDPR directive , which comes into force on the 25th May 2018 , aims to protect privacy and personal data with clear penalties for those who fail to comply with the legislation . |
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WHAT IS ‘ PERSONAL DATA ’? This act covers all data and meta-data held about employees , prospects , customers , suppliers or anyone else , where they are referred to as an individual , as opposed to a company . For example , this does not apply to a company recorded as ‘ Some Org Ltd ’, but |
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would apply to ‘ Joe Bloggs , Managing Director at Some Org Ltd ’. Therefore , any company that stores names and addresses is likely to be required to comply with this regulation .
POST-BREXIT - DOES THIS STILL MATTER TO ME ? When the directive comes into force in 20 months , the UK will still be governed by EU regulations . At a point when the UK leaves the EU , the GDPR directive will be used by the UK as a base for writing a replacement data protection directive . What ’ s more , if UK organisations intend to trade with EU organisations , they will need to adhere to the GDPR , so this matters to most businesses regardless of Brexit .
HOW DOES GDPR DIFFER FROM THE CURRENT DATA PROTECTION ACT ? Overall , the scope of GDPR is greater than the DPA , and it is easier to define the point when breach occurs . More responsibility is placed on the holder and processor of data and full control is firmly with the owner of the data .
THE KEY CHANGES INCLUDE :
• When data is collected , the purpose of this must be made clear
• A company must delete data if no longer used for the purpose it was collected
• The subject has the right to be erased on request
• Firms handling a large amount of data , or sensitive data , must appoint a data protection officer ( DPO )
• All businesses in the EU must be compliant , as must companies trading with organisations within the EU .
Surprisingly , 44 % of IT professionals are uninformed of these new rules according to Computer Weekly and in the experience of OpusVL , very few companies that the software supplier has talked with has even heard of the impending GDPR .
Source : OpusVL
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