What is GDPR and how will it affect you...
General Data Protection Regulation
from
25th May 2018
all public and private sector organisations
have to comply with the new regulation
regardless of whether you are in or out of the EU, if you lose any data
on EU citizens you could face a fine of up to
or |
of your global annual turnover |
Useful information that you should know
Article 32 of GDPR |
"…appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia as appropriate: the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data" |
Article 34 of GDPR |
"...the controller has implemented appropriate technical and organisational protection measures, and those measures were applied to the personal data affected by the personal data breach, in particular those that render the personal data unintelligible to any person who is not authorised to access it, such as encryption;" |
must be reported within
unless the data was encrypted on the lost device
in |
a US health insurer lost |
people's records due to |
missing hard drives |
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35420306
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