Recital - 78.
Appropriate Technical and organizational Measures
Executive Summary
Controllers and processors can reduce their risk by minimising the processing of personal data, pseudonymising personal data as soon as possible, transparency with regard to the functions and processing of personal data, enabling the data subject to monitor the data processing, enabling the controller to create and improve security features.
Recital Text
The protection of the rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data require that appropriate technical and organizational measures be taken to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met.In order to be able to demonstrate compliance with this Regulation, the controller should adopt internal policies and implement measures which meet in particular the principles of data protection by design and data protection by default.Such measures could consist, inter alia, of minimising the processing of personal data, pseudonymising personal data as soon as possible, transparency with regard to the functions and processing of personal data, enabling the data subject to monitor the data processing, enabling the controller to create and improve security features.When developing, designing, selecting and using applications, services and products that are based on the processing of personal data or process personal data to fulfil their task, producers of the products, services and applications should be encouraged to take into account the right to data protection when developing and designing such products, services and applications and, with due regard to the state of the art, to make sure that controllers and processors are able to fulfil their data protection obligations.The principles of data protection by design and by default should also be taken into consideration in the context of public tenders.
Executive Summary
Policies should be created to keep data storage at a minimum by implementing data retention and disposal lifecycles which limit storage to business or regulatory requirements, processes to securely delete the data, as well as an audit process for identifying and deleting any data that exceeds the retention period.
Article ID: 340
Created: September 27, 2022
Last Updated: September 27, 2022
Author: Matthew Burdick
Online URL: http://www.compliancewiki.org/article/gdpr-data-protection-by-design-and-by-default-data-lifecycle-management-340.html