A colloquial description of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s consistency mechanism that allows a specific Data Protection Authority (see DPA) to function as a business’s single point of contact—or lead supervisory authority—for a complaint or investigation. This saves businesses from the need to potentially engage with DPAs from 28 EU Member States.
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