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<p>Data controller organizations are required to keep an up-to-date and detailed list of their processing activities and be prepared to show that list to regulators upon request. This list should include at least the purposes of the processing, the target data and all the parties involved in handling that data. We present a solution for organizing all these information into both relational and non-relational document-oriented databases to facilitate such reports. A technical approach of auditing the implementation degree of the rules introduced by the EU GDPR will better prepare the data controllers in complying to this Regulation. We consider a top-down methodology for processing raw data addressing several types of organizations, with different organizational structures. For all these entities we focus on processes, activities, classes of documents collected and personal data. All these data constitute the basis of the “Records of processing activities” required by the Regulation.</p>
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Data controller organizations are required to keep an up-to-date and detailed list of their processing activities and be prepared to show that list to regulators upon request. This list should include at least the purposes of the processing, the target data and all the parties involved in handling that data. We present a solution for organizing all these information into both relational and non-relational document-oriented databases to facilitate such reports. A technical approach of auditing the implementation degree of the rules introduced by the EU GDPR will better prepare the data controllers in complying to this Regulation. We consider a top-down methodology for processing raw data addressing several types of organizations, with different organizational structures. For all these entities we focus on processes, activities, classes of documents collected and personal data. All these data constitute the basis of the “Records of processing activities” required by the Regulation.

GDPR Records of Processing Activities for Data Controllers

“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași

Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Iași. Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Electronics Section

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Data controller organizations are required to keep an up-to-date and detailed list of their processing activities and be prepared to show that list to...

GDPR Records of Processing Activities for Data Controllers

Publié en ligne: 22 sept. 2022

Pages: 9 - 24

Reçu: 10 déc. 2021

Accepté: 28 déc. 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipie-2021-0019

Mots clés
GDPR compliance, data protection, business analysis, audit, data modelling

© 2021 Cătălin Mironeanu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

GDPR Records of Processing Activities for Data Controllers

Publié en ligne: 22 sept. 2022

Pages: 9 - 24

Reçu: 10 déc. 2021

Accepté: 28 déc. 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bipie-2021-0019

Mots clésGDPR compliance, data protection, business analysis, audit, data modelling

© 2021 Cătălin Mironeanu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
GDPR compliance, data protection, business analysis, audit, data modelling