THE CODEX

The protection of personal data has had a particular importance at an international level, hence, ever since 2006, every January 28th is dedicated to data protection

The right to access, to portability and to rectify their data have in common that the user does not question the processing of his data. It simply represent his right of review on his data.

The rights users have on their data are not absolute. As such, it is important for data controller to know how they must react to a request to exercise one.

This article is a brief overview of user rights, and is part of a series of articles about user rights that will give further information on how to ensure data controllers respect those rights better.

Unless developers understand GDPR and how to implement it, compliance will never happen and the level of ethics on personal data will never rise. We need a new generation of Privacy Developers.

TL; DR Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies saw the risk of being issued a fine for non-compliance with managing customer data as less costly than implementing data governance and data privacy systems.