Yes as long as the professional duties of the employee are compatible with the duties of the DPO and do not lead to a conflict of interests, rather than you having to create a new post
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes you can contract out the role of DPO, based on a service contract with an individual or an organisation The externally-appointed DPO should have the same position, tasks and duties as an internal DPO
Have you collected and stored the appropriate and necessary consent of the Data Subject?
For data processing
For data storage
To facilitate data-subject rights
To know if a breach has occurred
While ensuring that withdrawal of consent is as easy as giving it.
Corporations can only use it for purposes that are
pre-defined
explicit
with the full agreement of the individual in advance
Have you informed the Data Subject?
Why we need the data specified
All processing that will be enacted upon it
When we will destroy or re-consent the data
Where we sourced the data
Precisely with whom we will send or 'share' the data
About their rights of access and how to effect that
Even if we [the controller] controls the Processor, we probably need to ask: Article 28
Do we have a ‘written contract’ with the processing organization?
Does the Contract precisely state what the processing consists of?
Do we completely understand the Processors’ data storage arrangements?
Do we have a copy of the Processor’s approved code of conduct?
Do we permit the Processor to make any decisions at all in managing the data?
Is the data Controller exercising control from outside EU? Article 26,27
In which country/ies is/are the EU Designated Controller(s)?
What is their relationship with the external Controller?
What is their relationship with the Data Subjects?
Do we have processes, in place, to ensure that: Article 24,25
We can show how we protect the rights of data subjects
We can show that only personal data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed
We can show how this applies to the amount of personal data collected, the extent of their processing
We can justify the period of their storage and the data accessibility
Have you informed the Data Subject?
Of their different rights to “object” in various ways to, or to prevent, our different types of processing, and the automated or other methods available to them to exercise these rights
Of the right to be excluded from profiling and how
How to secure human attention to their concerns
If any limitations to their rights apply
Do we have processes, in place, to ensure that: Article 24,25
We can show that we have moved our processes in line with IT’s evolution
We can show we have dynamic processes in place to track the state-of-the-art and modify our processing accordingly
We can show that we implement data-protection principles, such as data minimisation, in an effective manner
We can show how we integrate the necessary safeguards into the processing in order to meet the requirements of the GDPR
We can demonstrate an appropriate set of policies
[ok for now but need to revisit – also need to consider duplication with next sub-box?]