Dr Guido Reinke has published a new book on Data Protection which is aimed at helping organisations and professionals to reduce their liability for GDPR infringements and data breaches.
Guido Reinke (Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law LLM, 2020) is a Data Protection Officer with a business assurance, and legal and regulatory compliance background. He has advised firms on how to design and implement global privacy frameworks. After working for the European Commission, he took employment with regulated industries and at Big Four professional services firms. He holds an LLM from Queen Mary and a PhD from the University of London, and has lectured on Regulatory Governance at the London School of Economics. He is also the author of a treatise on data transfer between the EU and third countries, and of several other publications on regulatory compliance.
Guido's new publication, Blue Paper on Data Protection – A Data Breach Accountability Framework: How to reduce the risk of GDPR sanctions (ISBN: 978-1908585141), will help organisations and professionals to reduce their liability for GDPR infringements and data breaches. This is the first publication to provide a robust accountability framework for professionals in the field of data protection and information security.
Blue Paper on Data Protection analyses the legal position of the GDPR, including the integrity and confidentiality principle; the security of processing; the importance of breach notifications; the concept and the pragmatics of demonstrating regulatory compliance; and state-of-the-art tools for minimisation of risk and damage mitigation. It includes a GDPR Sanctions Directory, a repository of administrative cases (including fines imposed) by Data Protection Supervisory Authorities across EEA countries, since the GDPR came into force. The contents feature five case studies illustrating how to reduce liability and recommending practices that can be adopted to mitigate the possibility of (1) negligent physical data breaches, (2) cyberattacks, and (3) deliberate data breaches by rogue employees.
The author notes that “although 22.1% of all penalties result from infringements of the information security principle and data breaches, many organisations are still not able to demonstrate their compliance through a robust framework”, – leading to avoidable fines and reputational loss. Prof Ian Walden, Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University, stresses that “the Data Breach Accountability Framework presented in this Blue Paper is a good starting point for organisations seeking to develop a robust compliance regime in light of the integrity and confidentiality principle of the GDPR”.
The GDPR is a most far-reaching data protection law. This Blue Paper provides the full-spectrum of knowhow and the tools required in order to achieve compliance. An understanding of the privacy risks and how to manage them are prerequisite to sealing the genie of liability inside the bottle. Blue Paper on Data Protection – A Data Breach Accountability Framework: How to reduce the risk of GDPR sanction is available at Amazon.co.uk and through other channels in more than 80 countries, including in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, India and Japan.