Data Processing at Work: Risk Assessments under the GDPR
Published on: 09/03/2018
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Eimear Boyle Former Senior Associate at Mathesons
Eimear Boyle Former Senior Associate at Mathesons
Eimear boyle

Eimear has extensive corporate employment law and data protection expertise, and supports HR managers and directors, senior executives and business owners through the challenges of employee investigations, disciplinary proceedings and workplace litigation together with day-to-day employment contractual and policy queries and strategic HR planning.

In the second of the series by Crowley Solicitors on data processing in the workplace, Eimear Boyle gives an overview of the prevalence of risk and explains how HR professionals should start thinking about their approach to and involvement in some of the risk assessments required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The GDPR obliges controllers and processors of personal data to take a risk-based approach to their processing activities. For business units operating in a risk-based environment this will be a familiar concept and language but for many HR professionals the world of risk is unchartered, yet many of you will now be asked to contribute to or even complete risk assessments.

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 09/03/2018
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