Data Protection Authority
What is Data Protection Authority?
An independent public authority responsible for monitoring and enforcing data protection regulations within its jurisdiction.
Terms that appear alongside data protection authority
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data protection authority. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 21 shared controls
- gdpr 13 shared controls
- supervisory authority 6 shared controls
- consent 5 shared controls
- lawful basis 4 shared controls
- data subject 4 shared controls
- breach notification 3 shared controls
- accountability 3 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on data protection authority
Requirements naming data protection authority across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Establishment of an independent national authority responsible for ensuring personal data processing complies with the Convention.
MALABO-Art12 · National Personal Data Protection Authority →The Datenschutzbehörde (DSB) is established as Austria's independent supervisory authority (DSG s18).
AT-DSG-7 · Section 18 - Establishment of the Data Protection Authority →The Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC), through a Delegatura for Personal Data Protection, exercises oversight to ensure compliance with the law.
CO-L1581-A19 · Data Protection Authority (SIC) →Transfers not covered by adequacy, safeguards, binding corporate rules or the exceptions require the Authority's prior authorisation, with documented compliance;
ley-org-nica-de-protecci-n-de-datos-personales-lopdp::59 · Art. 59 and RGLOPDP Arts. 77 and 78: authorisation of other transfers and registration of all transfers →Ghana DPA 2012 sectoral + regional + international coordination. GHANA CYBERSECURITY ACT 2020 (Act 1038, covered as its own framework): cybersecurity-incident-personal-data overlap;
GhDPA-Coord-Cyber-ECOWAS-Malabo-Status · Sectoral Coordination + ECOWAS + Malabo + 2024-2025 Pipeline + Status →Act No. 90/2018 on Data Protection and the Processing of Personal Data (Log um personuvernd og vinnslu personuupplysinga nr. 90/2018) is the foundational Icelandic data protection law administered by Personuvernd (Icelandic Data Protection Authority).
ICELAND-Act90-Chap1-Scope-Definitions-EEA-GDPR-Personuvernd · Iceland Act No. 90/2018 - Chapter I Scope + Definitions + EEA Agreement + GDPR Application + Personuvernd Authority →Questions people ask about data protection authority
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