To provide evidence of GDPR compliance, a company performs an internal audit. As a result, it finds a data base, password-protected, listing all the social network followers of the client.
Regarding the domain of the controller-processor relationships, how is this situation considered?
Which of the following would MOST likely trigger the extraterritorial effect of the GDPR, as specified by Article 3?
If a company is planning to use closed-circuit television (CCTV) on its premises and is concerned with GDPR compliance, it should first do all of the following EXCEPT?
SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next question:
Jane starts her new role as a Data Protection Officer (DPO) at a Malta-based
company that allows anyone to buy and sell cryptocurrencies via its online platform.
The company stores and processes the personal data of its customers in a
dedicated data center located in Malta (EU).
People wishing to trade cryptocurrencies are required to open an online account on
the platform. They then must successfully pass a Know Your Customer (KYC) due
diligence procedure aimed at preventing money laundering and ensuring
compliance with applicable financial regulations.
The non-European customers are also required to waive all their GDPR rights by
reading a disclaimer written in bold and ticking a checkbox on a separate page in
order to get their account approved on the platform.
All customers must likewise accept the terms of service of the platform. The terms
of service also include a privacy policy section, saying, among other things, that if a
customer fails the KYC process, its KYC data will be automatically shared with the
national anti-money laundering agency.
The KYC procedure requires customers to answer many questions, including
whether they have any criminal convictions, whether they use recreational drugs or
have problems with alcohol, and whether they have a terminal illness. While
providing this data, customers see a conspicuous message saying that this data is
meant only to prevent fraud and account takeover, and will be never shared with
private third parties.
The company regularly conducts external security testing of its online systems by
independent cybersecurity companies from the EU. At the final stage of testing, the
company provides cybersecurity assessors with access to its central database to
review security permissions, roles and policies. Personal data in the database is
encrypted; however, cybersecurity assessors usually have access to the decryption
keys obtained while running initial security testing. The assessors must strictly
follow the guidelines imposed by the company during the entire testing and auditing
process.
All customer data, including trading activities and all internal communications with
technical support, are permanently stored in a secured AWS S3 Glacier cloud data
storage, located in Ireland, for backup and compliance purposes. The data is
securely transferred to the cloud and then is properly encrypted while at rest by
using AWS-native encryption mechanisms. These mechanisms give AWS the
necessary technical means to encrypt and decrypt the data when such is required
by the company. There is no data processing agreement between AWS and the
company.
Should Jane modify the required GDPR rights waiver for non-European residents?
SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next question:
Anna and Frank both work at Granchester University. Anna is a lawyer responsible for data protection, while Frank is a lecturer in the engineering department. The University maintains a number of types of records:
In order to improve his teaching, Frank wants to investigate how his engineering students perform in relational to Department for Education expectations. He has attended one of Anna’s data protection training courses and knows that he should use no more personal data than necessary to accomplish his goal. He creates a
program that will only export some student data: previous schools attended, grades originally obtained, grades currently obtained and first time university attended. He wants to keep the records at the individual student level. Mindful of Anna’s training, Frank runs the student numbers through an algorithm to transform them into different reference numbers. He uses the same algorithm on each occasion so that he can update each record over time.
One of Anna’s tasks is to complete the record of processing activities, as required by the GDPR. After receiving her email reminder, as required by the GDPR. After receiving her email reminder, Frank informs Anna about his performance database.
Ann explains to Frank that, as well as minimizing personal data, the University has to check that this new use
of existing data is permissible. She also suspects that, under the GDPR, a risk analysis may have to be carried out before the data processing can take place. Anna arranges to discuss this further with Frank after she has done some additional research.
Frank wants to be able to work on his analysis in his spare time, so he transfers it to his home laptop (which is not encrypted). Unfortunately, when Frank takes the laptop into the University he loses it on the train. Frank has to see Anna that day to discuss compatible processing. He knows that he needs to report security incidents, so he decides to tell Anna about his lost laptop at the same time.
Before Anna determines whether Frank’s performance database is permissible, what additional information does she need?
When would a data subject NOT be able to exercise the right to portability?
SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next question:
Liem, an online retailer known for its environmentally friendly shoes, has recently expanded its presence in Europe. Anxious to achieve market dominance, Liem teamed up with another eco friendly company, EcoMick, which sells accessories like belts and bags. Together the companies drew up a series of marketing campaigns designed to highlight the environmental and economic benefits of their products. After months of planning, Liem and EcoMick entered into a data sharing agreement to use the same marketing database, MarketIQ, to send the campaigns to their respective contacts.
Liem and EcoMick also entered into a data processing agreement with MarketIQ, the terms of which included processing personal data only upon Liem and EcoMick’s instructions, and making available to them all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with GDPR obligations.
Liem and EcoMick then procured the services of a company called JaphSoft, a marketing optimization firm that uses machine learning to help companies run successful campaigns. Clients provide JaphSoft with the personal data of individuals they would like to be targeted in each campaign. To ensure protection of its
clients’ data, JaphSoft implements the technical and organizational measures it deems appropriate. JaphSoft works to continually improve its machine learning models by analyzing the data it receives from its clients to determine the most successful components of a successful campaign. JaphSoft then uses such models in providing services to its client-base. Since the models improve only over a period of time as more information is collected, JaphSoft does not have a deletion process for the data it receives from clients. However, to ensure compliance with data privacy rules, JaphSoft pseudonymizes the personal data by removing identifying
information from the contact information. JaphSoft’s engineers, however, maintain all contact information in the same database as the identifying information.
Under its agreement with Liem and EcoMick, JaphSoft received access to MarketIQ, which included contact information as well as prior purchase history for such contacts, to create campaigns that would result in the most views of the two companies’ websites. A prior Liem customer, Ms. Iman, received a marketing campaign from JaphSoft regarding Liem’s as well as EcoMick’s latest products. While Ms. Iman recalls checking a box to receive information in the future regarding Liem’s products, she has never shopped EcoMick, nor provided her personal data to that company.
Under the GDPR, Liem and EcoMick’s contract with MarketIQ must include all of the following provisions EXCEPT?
A dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) address is considered persona! data when it is combined with what?