The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) : a practical guide

✍ Scribed by Bussche, Axel von dem; Voigt, Paul

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides expert advice on the practical implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and systematically analyses its various provisions. Examples, tables, a checklist etc. showcase the practical consequences of the new legislation. The handbook examines the GDPR’s scope of application, the organizational and material requirements for data protection, the rights of data subjects, the role of the Supervisory Authorities, enforcement and fines under the GDPR, and national particularities. In addition, it supplies a brief outlook on the legal consequences for seminal data processing areas, such as Cloud Computing, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Adopted in 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation will come into force in May 2018. It provides for numerous new and intensified data protection obligations, as well as a significant increase in fines (up to 20 million euros). As a result, not only companies located within the European Union will have to change their approach to data security; due to the GDPR’s broad, transnational scope of application, it will affect numerous companies worldwide. Read more...

Abstract: This book provides expert advice on the practical implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and systematically analyses its various provisions. Examples, tables, a checklist etc. showcase the practical consequences of the new legislation. The handbook examines the GDPR’s scope of application, the organizational and material requirements for data protection, the rights of data subjects, the role of the Supervisory Authorities, enforcement and fines under the GDPR, and national particularities. In addition, it supplies a brief outlook on the legal consequences for seminal data processing areas, such as Cloud Computing, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Adopted in 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation will come into force in May 2018. It provides for numerous new and intensified data protection obligations, as well as a significant increase in fines (up to 20 million euros). As a result, not only companies located within the European Union will have to change their approach to data security; due to the GDPR’s broad, transnational scope of application, it will affect numerous companies worldwide

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction and ‘Checklist’ (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 1-7
Scope of Application of the GDPR (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 9-30
Organisational Requirements (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 31-86
Material Requirements (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 87-140
Rights of Data Subjects (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 141-187
Interaction with the Supervisory Authorities (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 189-199
Enforcement and Fines Under the GDPR (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 201-217
National Peculiarities (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 219-233
Special Data Processing Activities (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 235-243
Practical Implementation of the Requirements Under the GDPR (Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche)....Pages 245-249
Back Matter ....Pages 251-383

✦ Subjects

Data protection -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries;Privacy, Right of -- European Union countries;LAW / Constitutional;LAW / Public;Data protection -- Law and legislation;Privacy, Right of;Europe -- European Union countries