Privacy and data processing

Privacy has recently become a hot topic. The media daily reports on data breaches, hacking and messages about high fines being imposed by the European Data Protection Authorities. The quantity of privacy legislation is increasing steadily.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation is applicable as of May 25, 2018 and has a major impact on anyone who processes personal data.

This also counts for IT companies and advertising and communication agencies - historically our most important group of clients - who process personal data on behalf of their clients. Consider, for example, personal data that are stored in a database and are used to send commercial emails. Or applications that ask the user to enter personal information - such as username and an email address.

Every company should therefore get to work with privacy. To make an organization compliant to all legislation requires quite some effort. There is no standard procedure because no organization is organized as the other and the method of processing personal data differs. Custom made advice and measures are therefore needed.

Our privacy services

Our services regarding privacy consist of providing legal advice to companies that process personal data such as:

• Drafting or assessing processing agreements;
  
  
• Drafting guidelines within the framework of notifications of data breach;
  
  
• Advice on how to act in case of a data breach;
  
  
• Conducting a privacy audit;
  
  
• Act against persons who have committed unlawful access to an IT system or have performed DDOS attacks.

Privacy scans

We regularly perform privacy scans. This scan aims to map the manner in which personal data are processed within the company, to understand where the risks are located. Then we make suggestions for taking measures to minimize risks and to comply with the legalislation. Our research and advice are documented in a privacy report.