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DPO v/s Data Protection Compliance Officer

We’ve been advised that due to the small scale of our business it’s unnecessary to appoint a Data Protection Officer, but instead we will need to appoint the DPO’s responsibilities to a “Data Protection Compliance Officer”. Could you please confirm that’s correctand if Yes, should we use that title in all the documentation referring to the DPO?

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Andrei Hanganu May 25, 2018

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You must appoint a data protection officer if:
- You are required to do so by national law. Some Member States are likely to make this mandatory, particularly where this obligation already exists in national law (e.g. Germany);
- are a public authority or body (other than a court);
- Your core activities consist of regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale; or
- Your core activities consist of processing sensitive personal data on a large scale (including processing information about criminal offences)
So, not necessarily related to the size the company.

To learn more about DPOs check out our article “The role of the DPO in light of the General Data Protectio n Regulation” https://advisera.com/eugdpracademy/knowledgebase/the-role-of-the-dpo-in-light-of-the-general-data-protection-regulation/

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