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What exactly triggers the GDPR Article 14?

Article 14 of the GDPR concerns the requirement for a data controller to inform the data subject when they obtain personal data has been obtained from an entity that is not the data subject: Art. 14 ...
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Is there a way to determine if an email address is personal information?

The GDPR defines personal data as: Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. My understanding is that this means that [email protected] is ...
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Responsabilities on data breaches UK Data Protection Act

Following a question from THIS StackExchange about Data Protection Act application in the UK, there is an aspect about "proactivity" and "responsabilities" that I do not fully ...
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Does the UK have a (enforcable) law linked with the Data Protection Act to control document's metadata?

Reading the information on the ICO's website, I came across a few items mentioning how to handle metadata on my organization's workflow like THIS or THIS. I noticed they use expressions like "...
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If you recieve others PII as part of the response to a GDPR SAR do you become a data controller?

Say Alice makes a GDPR Subject Access Request of a data controller, and in response receives some of Bob's Personally Identifiable Information, does the Alice then become a data controller with ...
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Can I store the names of arbitrary business associates in my CRM system?

I'm running an agency and I would like to store the names of employees of my client's companies to help me build client relationships. For example, "Gina works on reception." Is this allowed ...
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What references are available for the GDPR legitimate interests balancing test?

A basis for the processing of personally identifiable data (PII) is legitimate interest. According to the UK ICO data controllers who rely on this basis should conduct a legitimate interests ...
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Does the Data Protection Act 2018 in UK require users of a website to explicitly

Now that Brexit has happened, GDPR no longer takes effect in UK. However, the Data Protection Act 2018 will continue to apply. With GDPR's Article 6, a website is required to request explicit consent ...
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What constitutes PII w.r.t. DPA \ EU legislations?

I have the following data items: Name Office Department Parking space number I'm using What is personal data? – A quick reference guide to figure out what out of these items would be regarded as PII....
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