Monday, December 1, 2014

How Can DPOs Leverage a New Role Under the Proposed Regulation?

Under the proposed General Data Protection Regulation, the function and tasks of the data protection officers (DPOs) are much more comprehensive and structured. At the IAPP’s Data Protection Congress in Brussels last week, four DPOs discussed how they expect their roles and responsibilities to change under the regulation and how they propose to leverage the opportunity.

Philippe Renaudière is DPO for the European Commission. He said while the number of complaints he receives yearly is limited, there’s always at least one that’s extremely serious and important, in which case the function of the DPO is to cooperate with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). But in general, from day to day, the role is much more pragmatic.

“That’s the first step: Raise awareness and create a culture of data protection. Train people,” said Renaudière. “I like that I’m a facilitator, because that’s my basic approach, my first approach to a problem. Normally, the commission is a decent institution with decent people who do decent things … It’s more a matter of explaining, defining the correct way.”

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