Following the adoption of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 27 April 2016, most organisations began to re-examine their internal processes and procedures in order to ensure compliance with the new requirements before its entry into force in May 2018. In this sixth article, we will list the (new) rights and protections granted to the data subjects under the GDPR and discuss how their enforcement may impact your organization.
The GDPR expands existing set of rights provided in the 1995 Data Protection Directive (such as the right to access, right to rectification and right to object to the processing of data) and introduces new rights, namely, a right to erasure, a right to data portability and a right to restriction. Data controllers will be...
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