Article 29 Working Party Draft Guidelines on Transparency under GDPR

• 22/12/2017
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The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) has published draft guidelines (the Guidelines) on transparency under General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the GDPR) and invites stakeholders to submit comments by 23 January 2018.

The Guidelines explain the central role of transparency for the GDPR in informing data subjects about the processing of their personal data. In addition, the transparency obligation relates to communicating with data subjects about their rights and about exercising these rights. The Guidelines also link the principle of transparency with the obligation for “fairness” and the new principle of “accountability” under which controllers must be able to demonstrate compliance with their obligations under the GDPR.  

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