Centre for Information Policy Leadership just held GDPR workshop

Last month, the CIPL held its second workshop in Paris as part of its two-year GDPR implementation project.

During this workshop almost 120 business delegates as well as 12 data protection authorities, four European Member State governments both the European Commission and the European Data Protection Supervisor, a non-DPA regulator and several academics and on top of all of the named above the IAPP participated in order to develop best practices and to build a bridge between authorities and economy.

This time, the workshop mainly focused both on the role of the data protection officers and on the privacy impact assessment, also called PIA.

In this context it was also announced that the Article 29 Working Party is going to release its first guidelines concerning the GDPR either before the end of the year or at the beginning of 2017. These guidelines will include advise on data portability and the role of the DPO. Furthermore, the Article 29 Working Party will also release guidance on risk, PIAs and certifications later on.