GDPR Fundamentals Video Series

GDPR Fundamentals

If your organization processes personal information coming from the European Union, you should begin learning about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This law gives data subjects more rights over their personal data and establishes security and privacy obligations for any organization around the world that is processing the data of an EU data subject, making the applicability of the law follow data rather than following a data subject or physical location. In these videos, learn from KirkpatrickPrice privacy experts about the basic principles of GDPR and how to best start your GDPR compliance journey.

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Featured Episode:

GDPR Fundamentals: Data Security Requirements

September 14, 2018/in Video /by Mark Hinely

While GDPR is primarily a data privacy law, it also includes elements of data security. But of course, GDPR is ambiguous so it’s not very prescriptive when it comes to data security requirements for processing personal data. The law requires each organization to evaluate its own data security based risk, processing activities, and its organizational structure.

GDPR Fundamentals: Data Protection Officers

September 7, 2018

Most organizations who are required to comply with GDPR will have a Data Protection Officer (DPO). The requirement to have a DPO applies if you are a public authority, if your regular activities require large-scale and systematic monitoring, or if your core activities consist of large-scale processing of special categories of data.

GDPR Fundamentals: Roles Under the Law - Controllers, Processors, and Joint Controllers

August 31, 2018

GDPR divides responsibilities for organizations processing personal data based on their role, so determining which role your organization plays is one of the first steps towards GDPR compliance. You cannot know what your requirements or obligations under the law are until you do so. There are three major roles under GDPR: controllers, processors, and joint controllers. Let’s discuss what each of these roles mean and how your organization can determine which role it plays.

GDPR Fundamentals: Legal Basis For Processing Data

August 23, 2018

One of the seven major data processing principles of GDPR is to ensure that personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. To comply this principle, Chapter 6 of the GDPR requires any organization processing personal data to have a valid legal basis for that personal data processing activity. Think of these as scenarios in which it would be lawful to process data. GDPR provides six legal bases for processing:

GDPR Fundamentals: Data Subject Rights

August 17, 2018

GPDR is such a revolutionary law because its focus is so heavily on the data subjects and protects personal data not only in the shape of security, but also in privacy. The law actually gives data subjects seven rights, outlines in Chapter 3.