Data Protection Officer
What is Data Protection Officer?
A designated individual responsible for overseeing an organization's data protection strategy and compliance with privacy regulations.
Terms that appear alongside data protection officer
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data protection officer. The number is how many controls name both.
- data protection 89 shared controls
- data protection officer dpo 32 shared controls
- compliance 30 shared controls
- governance 30 shared controls
- gdpr 26 shared controls
- accountability 24 shared controls
- audit 21 shared controls
- records of processing activities 21 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on data protection officer
Requirements naming data protection officer across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
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 →Every public body, including public-law enterprises competing in the market, must designate a data protection officer; one officer may serve several bodies given their structure and size.
germany-federal-data-protection-act-bdsg::s5 · s 5 Public bodies designate a qualified data protection officer and publish the contact details →For the purpose of section 22(2)(e) of the Act, every controller must designate a data protection officer from among its staff; it may designate more than one having regard to its structure, size and the complexity and sensitivity of its processing, in which c...
mauritius-dpa::DPOR.3 · DPO Regulations 2026, regulation 3: designate a data protection officer and notify the Office within 14 days →Controllers and processors must designate a DPO where processing is carried out by a public authority or body (except courts acting judicially), where core activities require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale, or where core ac...
albania-law-no-124-2024-on-personal-data-protection::33 · Article 33: when a data protection officer must be designated →A data protection officer must be designated where processing is carried out by public-sector bodies (Art. 225 of the Constitution);
ley-org-nica-de-protecci-n-de-datos-personales-lopdp::48 · Art. 48, RGLOPDP Arts. 53 and 54 and resolution 0028-R Arts. 9 and 10: when a data protection officer must be designated →The legal representative of every controller and processor that is a juristic person appoints a competent employee within its structure as data protection officer, registers them in the Centre's DPO register under the conditions and procedures the Regulations...
egypt-personal-data-protection-law-law-no-151-of-2020::Art.8 · Art.8 Appointment and registration of a data protection officer →Questions people ask about data protection officer
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