GDPR Compliance

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, EU Regulation 2016/679) was introduced to strengthen the protection of European citizens’ personal data and to harmonize privacy regulations across the European Union. GDPR compliance, therefore, involves implementing all the organizational, technical, and legal measures necessary to ensure that personal data processing is conducted in accordance with the regulation.

To be GDPR compliant, companies must adopt a range of measures, including:

1. Privacy Notice: Provide data subjects with clear and comprehensive information on how their data is processed, including their rights and how to exercise them, and manage historical versions of notices to maintain the link between the information reviewed and the consent given for each data subject.
2. Consent Management: Obtain consent in a free, specific, informed, and unambiguous manner, and ensure that it can be withdrawn at any time, while also managing the retention period for this consent.
3. Accountability: Demonstrate compliance through detailed documentation and records of data processing activities.
4. Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default: Integrate data protection principles from the design phase of processes, ensuring that by default, only data strictly necessary for each specific purpose is processed.
5. Data Subject Rights: Ensure that data subjects can easily exercise their rights, such as the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, and data portability.

GDPR compliance is an ongoing process that requires constant updates, staff training, and revision of company procedures to adapt to regulatory and technological changes. Non-compliance with GDPR can lead to significant fines, which may reach up to 20 million euros or 4% of the company’s total global turnover.

Trust Guardian’s Approach to GDPR Compliance
Trust Guardian supports companies in managing GDPR compliance by offering a centralized platform for the control and management of consents, privacy notices, and privacy events. Trust Guardian allows companies to automate many of the tasks required by GDPR, such as:

• Centralized consent management
• Proofs of Genuineness of consents
• Traceability of all legal bases (not just consent)
• Management of data retention
• Documentation of privacy events
• Historical versioning of privacy notices
• Management of data subject requests
• Self-service area for data subjects to modify consents directly