CNIL released results of public consultation report about the GDPR

CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority,  just released the report of the public consultation. This report refers to the consultation of  professionals about the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR.

The basis of the report were 540 replies from 225 contributors and the main aspects relate to:

• the Data Protection Officer, DPO
• the right to data portability,
• the data protection impact assessments and
• the certification mechanism.

The report states that there are questions on how the requirements of the GDPR should be applied in practice. Some of the most frequently asked questions are:

• What is considered to be a conflict of interest – who can be appointed?
• Can a DPO be whole a team? Can a DPO be a legal person?
• What kind of investments will need to be made in order to implement the right to data portability?

Therefore, CNIL announced that some national communication campaigns will be launched and that there will be training sessions and workshops in cooperation with the current CILs, Correspondants Informatique et Libertés.