Data Privacy

Data Privacy- The GDPR Compliance Checklist

The GDPR is a complex 11 chaptered document with 99 articles that cover a wide range of user privacy issues. This set of regulations can be hard to digest and interpret, which is where this checklist enters the picture. The ultimate GDPR compliance checklist highlights and lays out all of the main bases that you have to cover systematically to achieve GDPR compliance.  

Data Privacy Impact Assessment (DPIA)

With the GDPR in in full swing, a DPIA can be extremely helpful for online publishers, who are now officially defined as data controllers (fully responsible for GDPR breaches). In a nutshell, DPIA is a risk management process. It helps map and analyze the privacy risks your operations create, eventually enabling you to come up with an optimization plan.

A.Identify the privacy risks and Evaluate Privacy Solutions

Your first challenge is to map the data collection points where you are collecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data from your customers and identify the privacy risks that exist while processing them. Data controllers (i.e - online publishers) should pay extra attention to PII data that is processed by third party services. 

Record the DPIA results and Integrate Into the Project Plan

After analyzing and understanding the privacy challenges in the ecosystem, the data controller should record all findings. Your next step should be to implement required mechanisms for enforcing personal data protection. Furthermore, the selected mechanisms need to be demonstrated adequately to prove GDPR compliance.

Collaborate with Internal and External Stakeholders

Online publishers need to know what exactly the third party vendors are doing with their customers’ PII data and how exactly it’s being processed. This collaboration is vital for GDPR compliance.

Policies and Procedures

As part of you shiny new privacy policy, your legal department or consultant will require a list of all data processors, why are they being used, how are they being used, and to what extent. You will also be required to ensure that your customers’ data is being processed in compliance and tracking all developments in real time while taking care of the relevant documentation.