The Essential Business Guide to GDPR Quotes

“A data protection officer (DPO) is an enterprise security leadership role required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data protection officers are responsible for overseeing data protection strategy and implementation to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“Each business will need to stipulate who their data controller is and what the individual controller’s responsibility is to the company or organisation.  Most business owners will appoint themselves the role and take responsibility for the management of personal data within the organisation.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“Furthermore, we noted additional changes that now include all data held on individuals; this no longer is just top-level data like names, addresses, email or phone.  Now special areas of interests are covered including health, payroll, payment details, political or sexual orientation and consideration will need to be given to who this and why this data is stored and what it is to be used for in your business.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“With GDPR the responsibility has now shifted to the business owner and controller to make sure that they do everything they can to protect their data silos and databases for all business systems while giving individuals more rights.  Within the GDPR regulation, it is now depicted that protection is a given Human Right, and details outline the rights of individuals under the new articles and recitals.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“We recommend evaluating business systems and your approach to data security and how data is managed across your organisation.  We consider data access and IT policy with regards to data storage devices fixed and external.  We also give consideration to data backups and data retention within your organisation, and any external 3rd party services that store data from your organisation.  In detailing all these vital topics, we relate to the individual Articles and Recitals of the GDPR Regulation.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“What it does mean is that before May 2018 you as the data owner or controller need to have a strategy in place, you need to have processes in place to deal with the regulation, and you need to understand what data you have and how it is to be processed.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“As the data owner or controller, you are responsible for all personal data held and all personal data processed, so the new regulation details what is required and this book explains the process of how you go about meeting the regulation and the approach that needs to be taken.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR

“The Implementation of GDPR into law is a sensible and proactive approach to help protect data, systems and remove neglect and possible misuse or data breach of data.  It is unlikely that all EU and UK business will be ready on time, but we do recommend that serious consideration is given to the topic and your approach going forward.”
― Alistair Dickinson, The Essential Business Guide to GDPR: A business owner’s perspective to understanding & implementing GDPR