
What Is GDPR?
The GDPR describes the main principles to be adopted by organisations in the processing of personal data. Organizations are expected to handle personal data in a legal, equitable and transparent manner.
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CIO Applications Europe | Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The GDPR describes the main principles to be adopted by organisations in the processing of personal data. Organizations are expected to handle personal data in a legal, equitable and transparent manner.
Fremont, CA: Technological developments over the last 25 years have not only changed our lives, but have also contributed to major improvements in the way organisations collect and process personal data. In response to such technological developments, there was a need to update existing rules to protect the privacy of EU people with regard to personal data.
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In 2016, the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which entered into force on 25 May 2018, giving Member States two years to fully enforce the Regulation. The GDPR supersedes EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and is now accepted as a regulation in the EU.
The GDPR describes the main principles to be adopted by organisations in the processing of personal data. Organizations are expected to handle personal data in a legal, equitable and transparent manner. Personal data collected from organisations should be used for a particular, explicit and valid purpose, and the personal data collected must be sufficient and limited to what is required.
Organizations must identify retention periods and have a duty to take all appropriate steps to ensure that personal data is kept correct and up to date. In addition, organisations also have an obligation to safeguard the privacy and confidentiality of personal data by enforcing reasonable technological or organisational measures to protect data from unauthorised access, unauthorised processing, unintentional loss, destruction or harm. The concept of transparency has also been adopted by the GDPR. Organizations are accountable and must be able to show conformity with the main concepts of data processing. Compliance with these principles is key to good data protection practises, and failure to comply with these principles can expose organisations to reputational risk as well as significant fines.
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