The General Data Protection Regulation’s forthcoming requirements will modify and “enhance” the roles of a company’s data controllers and chief data privacy officers, warns DLA Piper’s JP Buckley at a recent Computing webinar on the subject. "There's a new requirement to appoint data privacy officers. That's a title that has traditionally been quite an administrative role,” said Buckley in the Computing report. “It's now going to be a role that reports directly to the highest level of management and is involved in decisions around where data is being used and how. That's a really significant shift,” he continued. However, the GDPR’s “harmonization” of privacy laws across the EU “will actually make business more effective and easier to run," Buckley added.
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