{"id":176,"date":"2018-05-26T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techandtrain.in\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:25:34","slug":"general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-laymans-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-laymans-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) &#8211; Layman&#8217;s Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Data of any EU citizen \/ entity cannot be shared without explicit consent. Terms &amp; Conditions \/ Privacy checkbox doesn&#8217;t suitably give consent as per this law. Explicit consent is required<\/li>\n<li>Records of when consent was given, how, what time, when revoked, etc. must be stored<\/li>\n<li>Any breach of data or hacking must be informed to the stakeholders within 72 hours<\/li>\n<li>It applies to whole of EU<\/li>\n<li>Consent can be withdrawn anytime &amp; when they want, and data processor \/ controller must comply<\/li>\n<li>There is an option for right to be forgotten. If someone says to a data processor \/ controller that &#8220;FORGET ME&#8221; they must remove all data on them. It applies to all places which store &amp; process \/ control the relevant data<\/li>\n<li>GDPR applies to Production environment of Digital Systems which have data on EU citizens or entities. If Test \/ Pre-Production environment has unmasked data of EU citizens \/ entities again this law applies<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/gdpr-an-executive-guide-to-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/gdpr-an-executive-guide-to-what-you-need-to-know\/\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data of any EU citizen \/ entity cannot be shared without explicit consent. Terms &amp; Conditions \/ Privacy checkbox doesn&#8217;t suitably give consent as per this law. Explicit consent is required Records of when consent was given, how, what time, when revoked, etc. must be stored Any breach of data or hacking must be informed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-laymans-introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) &#8211; Layman&#8217;s Introduction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gdpr","tag-gdpr"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7do02-2Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1449,"url":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/what-analytics-can-we-run-for-a-biometric-solution-and-its-associated-portal-part-1collated-with-help-of-ai\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":0},"title":"What analytics can we run for a biometric solution and it&#8217;s associated portal? &#8211; Part 1(Collated with help of AI)","author":"Neil Harwani","date":"May 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Running analytics for a biometric solution and its associated portal involves monitoring both technical performance and user interaction, along with security and compliance metrics. 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