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Anyone who has not heard yet about GDPR, must have at least once met it during the masses of e-mails over the last days. Those who have already heard about it and were calm to encounter the date of entry into force must have prepared their data processing register, except when they were released by the Regulation from the obligation because they have less then 250 employees.

DPO, is it the best job in the world?  Well, it may be somewhat more trendy to be a pilot. Let’s see, what other professions exist where legislation requires that you may not accept any instruction about the performance of your tasks, you may not be called to account and you may not be dismissed? Not many, that is for sure, but it involves some responsibility too.

You might have heard the story of the ‘microwaved cat’ before. This issue was unsettling enough to be true and to draw our attention to the importance of providing the proper information via the proper channel on time…

Prior to the digitalization era, to gain and keep customer confidence was limited to deliver continuous high-quality service. Nowadays, data privacy has become at least as important. If a company cannot guarantee the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our information, we simply do not trust them … As a recent data breach shows us: who wants to be on Facebook today? (See more about Facebook – Cambridge Analytica scandal)

According to previous legislation practices on information self-determination and freedom of information, the legal basis for data processing was given by the stakeholder’s consent and legal obligation.

You must have read about processor and controller on many blogs before, therefore you probably know the difference between the two by now. Let’s be honest it isn’t a rocket science, but when it comes to responsibility there are a few things that should be clear.