Data Protection
What is Data Protection?
The set of strategies and processes used to secure the privacy, availability, and integrity of data throughout its lifecycle.
Terms that appear alongside data protection
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data protection. The number is how many controls name both.
- gdpr 179 shared controls
- consent 108 shared controls
- compliance 107 shared controls
- data protection officer 89 shared controls
- data subject 82 shared controls
- governance 74 shared controls
- impact assessment 72 shared controls
- audit 61 shared controls
Frameworks that govern data protection
What the standards actually require on data protection
Requirements naming data protection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Sections 45-50 of the Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020 establish the complaints and enforcement framework. (1) Section 45 Right to Complain: (a) data subject may complain to OIC against controller or processor;
JM-DPA2020-Complaints-Enforcement-Sec45-50-Investigation-Hearing-Determination-Appeal-Tribunal · Jamaica DPA 2020 Complaints + Enforcement + Sections 45-50 + Complaint Procedure + Investigation + Hearing + Determination + Compliance Orders + Administrative Penalties + Data Protection Tribunal + High Court Appeals →All public and private organisations in Nigeria that control data of natural persons had to make their data protection policies available to the public within three months of the Regulation's issuance (by 25 April 2019), in conformity with the Regulation.
nigeria-data-protection-regulation-ndpr::4.1(1) · Publish a data protection policy within three months of the Regulation →Personal data processed for a law enforcement purpose must be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose.
uk-data-protection-act-2018::s.37 · Section 37 The third data protection principle: adequate, relevant and not excessive →The controller must report to the Authority, and keep up to date, for each database or processing: its identification; the name, legal address and contact details of controller and processor; the characteristics and purpose of the processing;
ley-org-nica-de-protecci-n-de-datos-personales-lopdp::51 · Art. 51 and RGLOPDP Arts. 84 to 86: reporting to the National Register of Personal Data Protection →Ensure the data protection officer is involved, properly and in a timely manner, in all issues which relate to the protection of personal data.
GDPR-Art.38 · Position of the data protection officer →The controller makes sure it is able to take in reports, in confidence, of breaches of data protection law within its area of responsibility.
germany-federal-data-protection-act-bdsg::s77 · s 77 Be able to receive confidential reports of data protection violations →Questions people ask about data protection
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