{"id":29,"date":"2018-01-19T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/?p=29"},"modified":"2021-01-25T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T09:29:34","slug":"data-protection-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/data-protection-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Protection Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See also<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Commission Data Protection Officer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Why you need a DPO?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where the processing is carried out by a public authority, except for courts or independent judicial authorities when acting in their judicial capacity, or where, in the private sector, processing is carried out by a controller whose core activities consist of processing operations that require regular and systematic monitoring of the data subjects, a person with expert knowledge of data protection law and practices should assist the controller or processor to monitor internal compliance with this Regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DPO is similar but not the same as a Compliance Officer, as he\/she is also expected to be proficient at managing IT processes, data security (including dealing with cyber-attacks) and other critical business continuity issues around the holding and processing of personal and sensitive data. The skill set required stretches beyond understanding legal compliance with data protection laws and regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The appointment of a DPO within a large organization will be a challenge for the Board as well as for the individual concerned. There are myriad governance and human factor issues that organizations and companies will need to address given the scope and nature of the appointment. In addition, the post holder will need to create their own support team and will also be responsible for their own continuing professional development as they need to be independent of the organization that employs them, effectively as a &#8220;mini-regulator&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: European Commission Data Protection Officer Why you need a DPO? Where the processing is carried out by a public authority, except for courts or independent judicial authorities when acting in their judicial capacity, or where, in the private sector, processing is carried out by a controller whose core activities consist of processing operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pqc.com.cy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}