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The General Data Protection Regulation is the EU law governing personal data, and it reaches far beyond Europe. It applies to any company offering products or services to people in the EU or monitoring their behavior, wherever the company sits. Personal data is defined broadly: names, emails, IP addresses, device identifiers, and anything else that relates to an identifiable person.
Operationally, GDPR asks for a working program. Every processing purpose needs a lawful basis. People can exercise rights over their data, with deadlines. Article 32 requires security appropriate to the risk, expressly naming encryption and regular testing. Breaches must go to the regulator within 72 hours when risk is likely. Processors must be bound by data processing agreements, and data leaving the EU needs a valid transfer mechanism.
Enforcement is real, with fines up to four percent of global revenue, but for most B2B companies the immediate pressure is commercial. EU customers require a DPA, ask where data is processed, and expect answers about subprocessors, transfers, and security before they sign. GDPR readiness is increasingly a sales requirement, not just a legal one.
EU users or customers put you in scope regardless of where you are incorporated. B2B buyers will send a DPA and a transfer questionnaire before procurement clears you.
Handling EU customer or employee data as a processor means Article 28 obligations flow into your contracts, and your customers must verify you can meet them.
Expansion means SCCs, a records of processing document, maybe an EU representative. Having these ready turns a procurement blocker into a checkbox.
The privacy program and the security program share one control set, so nothing is built twice.
The 28 tracked articles map to controls covering lawful bases, notices, rights handling, ROPA, DPIAs, and transfer safeguards, alongside the security work.
The privacy and data protection policy set is drafted in your context and mapped to the articles each document supports.
Encryption, access control, resilience, and testing are the same controls your SOC 2 and ISO work already exercises, with evidence attached.
The vendor module tracks every processor, its DPA status, and where it processes data, which is exactly the Article 28 and transfer story auditors and customers probe.
28 articles tracked and cross mapped to one control set shared with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
Minimization, purpose limits, consent, special categories
Privacy notices and clear communication
Access, erasure, portability, objection
Governance, privacy by design, processors, ROPA
Encryption, resilience, and regular testing
72 hour notification and impact assessments
Adequacy, SCCs, and transfer assessments
articles, one control set
GDPR work is not a separate compliance island. The security articles ride on controls you already run for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and the privacy controls we add feed those frameworks back in return.
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