GDPR Support (2024)

FAQs

What does GDPR stand for? ›

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency; ▪ Purpose limitation; ▪ Data minimisation; ▪ Accuracy; ▪ Storage limitation; ▪ Integrity and confidentiality; and ▪ Accountability. These principles are found right at the outset of the GDPR, and inform and permeate all other provisions of that legislation.

The following is a brief overview of the Principles of Data Protection found in article 5 GDPR: Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: Any processing of personal data should be lawful and fair.

Yes, the GDPR applies to U.S. citizens physically located in a protected EU or EEA country. The GDPR uses the term data subjects in Article 3 when referring to the people whose data gets processed, but it doesn't mention citizenship or nationality.

GDPR governs the way in which we can use, process, and store personal data (information about an identifiable, living person). It applies to all organisations within the EU, as well as those supplying goods or services to the EU or monitoring EU citizens.

For example, the telephone, credit card or personnel number of a person, account data, number plate, appearance, customer number or address are all personal data. Since the definition includes “any information,” one must assume that the term “personal data” should be as broadly interpreted as possible.

In a nutshell, the GDPR establishes rules on how companies, governments and other entities can process the personal data of citizens who are EU citizens or residents. The GDPR aims to strengthen and unify data protection laws for all individuals across the European Union.

Necessary, proportionate, relevant, adequate, accurate, timely and secure: Ensure that information you share is necessary for the purpose for which you Page 2 are sharing it, is shared only with those individuals who need to have it, is accurate and up-to-date, is shared in a timely fashion, and is shared securely (see ...

The GDPR does not apply if: the data subject is dead. the data subject is a legal person. the processing is done by a person acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, or profession.

The CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) is the US equivalent of GDPR.

What triggers GDPR? ›

Simply being in the EU and having personal data collected about you by another party anywhere in the world may be enough to trigger the GDPR. Generally speaking, under the GDPR there must be a “lawful basis” for all data processing.

While the GDPR is a European Union regulation, it may nonetheless apply to American businesses that fall under any terms of the law. Therefore, if your company provides software, other services or monitors the behavior of people living in Europe, you must comply with the GDPR in the US.

The data controller determines the purposes for which and the means by which personal data is processed. So, if your company/organisation decides 'why' and 'how' the personal data should be processed it is the data controller.

This regulation is called the EU General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and is aimed at guiding and regulating the way companies across the world will handle their customers' personal information and creating strengthened and unified data protection for all individuals within the EU.

The EEA GDPR applies to all 27 member countries of the European Union (EU). It also applies to all countries in the European Economic Area (the EEA). The EEA is an area larger than the EU and includes Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein.