Help the Organization to Achieve GDPR Compliance

Levi Brereton
2 min readApr 13, 2018

Before we start our search for being GDPR compliance it’s important to know what is GDPR, GDPR is a general data protection regulation that is proposed by European commission to strengthen and unify the data protection for individuals within the EU whilst addressing the export of personal data outside EU (European Union), however it’s seen that GDPR is in news these days and thank God it’s for good reasons as this new sweeping new law applies to all companies that collect and process the data that belongs to EU citizens even if the processing of data is done outside EU then also GDPR is applicable and the law includes the companies with operations in EU and or a website or applications that collects the data and processes it for EU citizen and that’s the reason companies that are involved in these activities are looking ahead to get GDPR compliance

Failure to getting GDPR compliance can result in hefty fines and if the company dealing data for a EU citizen is found to be guilty of a breach the penalty could be up to 20 million Euros of 4% of enterprise revenue worldwide whichever is larger and thus according to that perspective a larger enterprise could be fined hundreds of millions of euros for a single breach of GDPR compliance. There are some points that needs to be taken care of for GDPR compliance like:-

Data Control:-

In thus area it’s important to preserve the subject’s privacy and thus the organization must:-

*The organization needs to process data only for some authorized use and it needs to ensure about the data accuracy and integrity and should thus implement the security measures to minimize the exposure of subject identities as this process can help the organization to achieve GDPR compliance and can thus save them for any kind of penalty due to non-compliance.

Another important point comes with data control is data security as data security goes hands in hand with data control and thus GDPR compliance puts security at the service of privacy.

It’s also seen that different companies hire professions for getting GDPR compliance as these experts understands the act to core and can thus help the organization in getting GDPR compliance however they cost heavily and thus the choice of hiring an expert depends upon the size of organization and its revenue as the job of GDPR compliance expert will be just to make sure that the organization is GDPR compliance.

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