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GDPR compliance depends on one fundamental fact: do you know what data you have, where it is located, and how it flows through your organisation? Privacy professionals increasingly see the same pattern: without proper data management, you will constantly be playing catch-up on GDPR compliance.<\/p>\n

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GDPR compliance starts with visibility into data and data flows<\/h2>\n

Think of the Article 30 record of processing activities: it is only as accurate as the underlying understanding of systems, data flows and accountable owners. Or consider a data breach: \u201cWhich personal data were affected? Which data subjects? What is the scope?\u201d Without structured data management, assessing the risks and determining the scope of a breach becomes much harder. And that is before we even get to access requests: the widespread distribution of unstructured data across any organisation often makes access requests inherently complex.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, DPI and Data Trust Associates<\/a> developed the training \u201cData Governance for DPOs<\/a>\u201d. The course is designed to teach DPOs the fundamentals of Data Governance so they can support their organisation in organising, structuring and managing data.<\/p>\n

Where Data Governance makes the difference for DPOs<\/h3>\n