Becoming GDPR Compliant – Step 6 of 12

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now just six months away from becoming law and many global companies are not fully prepared for this major legislation.

In our 12-part blog series exploring the impact of the GDPR legislation on employment screening programs in the EU, HireRight’s Associate General Counsel in EMEA, Caroline Smith, addresses the key issues and concepts you need to understand to get you and your company’s employment screening program GDPR-Ready.

In Step 5 of our GDPR blog series, we talked about the importance of vendor management – specifically, how to ensure vendors properly handle the personal data entrusted to them.

Now it’s time to continue the journey with Step 6 on the road to GDPR compliance:

 “Crash Test Dummy – Why every prudent processor of data should use Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)”

In Step 6, you will learn:

1. What a PIA is
2. When to carry out a PIA
3. The key official guidance to read on PIAs and the GDPR

Click to read the full blog on our EMEA site

Did you miss a previous step? Read it here:

Step 1 – Candidate consent and information notices

Step 2 – Follow the Yellow Brick Road (a.k.a. Data Mapping)

Step 3 – Subject Access Requests

Step 4 – The Right for Data to be Erased

Step 5 – Vendor Management – through the GDPR Looking Glass…

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