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It’s less than eight months to go …. How are you doing?
At this stage you may be beginning to feel saturated with GDPR – so many articles, blogs – is there a day that goes by when there isn’t some discussion relating to GDPR on your LinkedIn home page? For those of you out there who are feeling like this or disheartened at what you perceive as a mammoth task ahead of you (you might be surprised how liberating it actually feels to get rid of all those contact details you were holding on to just because) you might bear in mind that data protection is actually a fundamental right under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union– it isn’t something new that was created by GDPR. A fundamental right … take a second to think about that. Is it just because I am a lawyer or do those two words not make your heart beat just a little bit quicker? Of course fundamental rights are not absolute – they can be limited once the limitation respects the principle of proportionality and this a balance which GDPR aims to achieve throughout its various articles.
I was musing to myself the other day at the different meanings of the word “right”. A right in this sense is obviously an entitlement of a data subject to the protection afforded under the Charter. However right in the context of doing the right thing is about being fair, moral, honest, principled. Most companies today put considerable focus on their vision and values as a company and spend considerable time in coming up with interesting and quirky ways to communicate them. I have yet to come across any company that mentions in its vision or values that it strives to be unfair, immoral, dishonest or not principled. Putting GDPR at the fore front of how your company organises its business is about upholding the rights of your customers and employees and doing the right thing.
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