IT Compliance
What is a Data Protection Officer?
Reported by business2community.com
It’s almost May 25th, and if you’re like a lot of other companies around the world, you’re doing everything you can to get your GDPR ducks in a row. As a refresher, GDPR is the new privacy protection act taking effect in the EU that puts data security in the hands of the consumer. So, if you do business in the EU or with residents of the EU, GDPR will directly impact the way you do business. One of the most important (and mandatory) elements of GDPR is the implementation of a Data Protection Officer. If you’re concerned with whether or not you need one, we’ve created a list of questions about Data Protection Officers as outlined in the official GDPR brief shining some light on who exactly this data superhero is.