Ask HN: How do you prepare for GDPR?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16615407

by fargo • 8 years ago

3 1 8 years ago

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What tools do you use? What processes have you put in place? How confident are you that you are compliant?

nynno• 8 years ago

We're a software company, we decided to educate our own DPO. While learning about GDPR and preparing our processes and applications, we developed a solution which can help other companies to comply.

It's still in a beta and it's open source: https://github.com/gdprhq/GdprHq.Io.ClientSdk

For us, it helps a lot to see the actual source code and links between methods and articles from the GDPR.

To be ready for GDPR, we have several things on our to-do list: 1. prepare business processes, identify personal data, processors, processing activities and lawful basis, etc. 2. modify our internal applications to make them compatible with GDPR (data subject requests, e.g. right to be forgotten); internal applications are the one we develop for our own usage, e.g. for quotes, invoices, subscriptions and similar 3. assure that processors we're sending personal data are working on compliance, e.g. SaaS services we're using for website visitor analytics, mail campaigns, etc. 4. modify applications we're selling to our customers; it's also important to ensure that apps we're selling are GDPR compliant if our customers will store their personal data in them

Developing our own solution was the best way to learn GDPR :)

Nino https://www.gdprhq.io/

Ask HN: How do you prepare for GDPR?

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