Questions tagged [data-protection]
For questions about the legal obligations of protecting data (personal or otherwise) and the consequences of failing to do so.
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Do patients have the right to foot moulds / models from chiropodists? [closed]
If a chiropodist produces a 3D model or mould from a patient's foot in order to produce orthotic insoles, is the chiropodist required to retain the model or mould for a particular period of time? Does ...
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Does a company have an obligation to attempt to answer a GDPR request if the requestor may not have provided sufficient identification information?
An individual has asked to provide information on his personal data which is stored by a company (GDPR). He has only provided his name and surname. He has signed the document electronically, i.e., we ...
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EU Data Act - Receive access logs of managed wifi access points from service provider
As an employee of company A I would like to statistically analyse access logs of wifi access points, which are located in offices of company A, but managed by a service provider (company B). company B ...
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Witness protection and street photography
I am in a Canadian witness protection and recently went past a 360-degree camera recording video in the middle of a public street which I assume is for some art project.
In the witness protection ...
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Is analysis of personal data without saving considered data processing?
One of GDPR's main topics is processing data. Article 4 tells:
(2) ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or ...
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Standards for data availability for internal employees
Our organization possesses a lot of personal data, and when we provide the data to external partners we are very strict on complying with all the data confidentiality rules, recommendations, etc. The ...
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How do I keep my web site out of Europe?
Say I want to publish a web page that includes URLs for for Google-hosted font files in its stylesheet. If your user agent deigns to, it can download those font files and display the page with them.
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Does a "Data Controller" need to decide on behalf of others over their Data to become a Data Controller? [closed]
We provide Software for a school, more specifically for the Students Councils there. Hence we don't sign our contract with the school, but with "the Head" of the Students Council, which is ...
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Does a Push Notification Service (Apple/Google) have to be mentioned in an DPA. Do i need a DPA with the Service Providers? [closed]
We are a Software Company that provides a Software (an IOS and Android Application) to our Customers. That Customer itself would be treated as an Data Controller and thus we are the Data Processor, ...
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How can you tell if an application author or user is the one controlling or processing data?
Say I produce a tool that a user can enter a bunch of personal data into to accomplish some task. Say I distribute it as an EXE file or a web site or an app, but the tool does all its thinking and ...
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How can someone exercise their right to a copy of their data from a company? [closed]
I’m familiar with GDPR; in Utah it appears the analogous law is the Consumer Protection Act. In principle, I thought that GDPR gives anyone the right to request a copy of the data a company has about ...
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How is Bob meant to obtain Cameron’s contact address for Data Protection concerns?
Cameron is almost certainly a data controller for the prose of the the UKGDPR.
How can Bob practically go about seeking recourse and a means to reach Cameron, or an address on which to serve ...
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Is amateur/hobbyist journalism/photography a purely household purpose?
Alice takes photos of people in public and puts them into a portfolio binder for grading by her photography class instructor but does not publish them.
Barbara takes photos on her nights out and ...
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Is Cameron a data controller?
Cameron doesn’t take greatly thoughtful pains in defining himself with respect to his street and online activities. Some may consider him a political activist, some a citizen and/or amateur journalist,...
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Microsoft's Bing Chat says 'Ask me anything...'. Is it legal then for Americans to ask Bing Chat for classified information?
Microsoft's Bing Chat is an artificial intelligence web application, and it has a dialog box for users to ask it questions and there is a text message displayed in that dialog box that says, "Ask ...
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