You, ETZ and GDPR

The First Inaugural International GDPR Day!

GDPR has finally come into play. The world hasn’t stopped turning, but there have been some interesting responses…

• Some US websites including gaming and mainstream media (MSM) outlets including the LA Times are now unavailable to EU web traffic. This is thought to be an interim measure as these organisations do not feel confident with their current state of preparedness and do not wish to run the risk of non-compliance.

• Email marketers had resorted to ever more desperate messaging trying to use emotional hooks to obtain opt-in from people in their databases. Messages with subject lines like ‘We don’t want to lose you…’ and ‘Is this goodbye?’ have led to Inboxes being deluged.

• And never one to miss an opportunity, a wave of cyber-attacks led by phishing has been unleashed by the online criminal fraternity. Cyber security authorities warned of the cyber-criminals attempts to cash in on GDPR-led email scams, designed to dupe people into revealing personal information that can be exploited.

The regulatory framework of GDPR and ETZ

There are three key elements to GDPR – Obligations, Prohibitions and Rights. They can be summarised like this:

• Obligations: Organisations are required to obtain consent of every individual whose personal data they handle.

• Prohibitions: Organisations are prohibited from profiling sensitive personal data without explicit consent of individuals, and they are also prohibited from profiling or monitoring individuals’ personal data without explicit consent.

• Rights: Individuals have new rights to enable them to control how their data is handled. these include: right of access to data, right to be forgotten (erasure), right to object processing of their personal data and right to data portability (in a machine readable format).

For companies that are clients of ETZ, we supply our services from the cloud hosted on servers in data centres. We store, manage and secure your data. Under GDPR this means we are defined as a ‘data processor’.
Download our guide for more information.

The GDPR compliance commitment from ETZ

As a data processor, ETZ is fully committed to ensuring that our systems adhere to the strict requirements of the GDPR, so that we, as a business, remain a trusted partner, and service provider.
With the recent appointment of Solange as our Data Protection Officer and legal counsel, the extra regulatory and legal expertise now onboard means we are better able to help you overcome any compliance barriers that your recruitment business faces.
ETZ joins up the dots of the recruitment back office. This reduces back office processing costs by up to 85%, while providing GDPR compliance. To find out more about how we help you to meet your regulatory obligations under GDPR, just sign up for our demo.
Find out more about our commitment to GDPR in our guide.