Feb
03
DPOrganizer’s former CFO Alicia Hatt formally took over the CEO role on January 1, 2022, following a transitionary period with former CEO Carl Svantesson. Alicia joined DPOrganizer as Head of Finance in December 2020 and was promoted to CFO shortly thereafter. Before joining the company, she’s held roles as Finance... read more →
Jan
27
Organisations using Google Analytics beware: The Austrian data protection authority has issued a decision that the transfer of Google Analytics data from the EU to the US violates the GDPR, due to not providing adequate supplementary measures during the transfer. The complaint was filed by the infamous privacy advocate organisation... read more →
Jan
25
We have been fortunate to have had great interactions and discussions with our customers since we launched DPOrganizer in 2016. These relationships have brought us insights into the lives of privacy professionals. In the beginning, we were aiming to be a pure software provider and to stay out of services... read more →
Jan
18
In a recent blog post, we discussed the importance of a privacy program lifecycle in order to achieve a meaningful privacy program – and how strategic context and cross-team collaboration is essential for this. In this piece, we further explore what a business integrated privacy program means and how it... read more →
Dec
21
2021’s been a year of constant change – both for DPOrganizer as a company, but also for each and every one of us, as we grapple with ever-changing habits and restrictions. It’s easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom of newsfeeds when working from home, so we... read more →
Dec
16
Shouvik’s had quite a journey at DPOrganizer, both literally and figuratively. He started as a consultant in India in 2017, left for something else in 2018 before rejoining again in 2020 and eventually moving to our HQ in Stockholm. We caught up to learn a bit about his experience at... read more →
Dec
14
You have decided that you want to engage with a specific processor. Your next step in this -sometimes long- journey to compliance is the signing of a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with them. Apart from it being an obligation set out by the GDPR, the DPA is also a very... read more →
Dec
07
If you are a controller considering engaging a processor, you can’t choose the one that suits you best based only on functionality. Even if that processor is selling the perfect product (e.g. software that is very easy to learn, a cloud service with unlimited storage capacity, etc.) or is offering... read more →
Nov
30
Mathematician and data scientist advocate Clive Humby once said: “Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed... read more →