14 HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE RISKS OF CHALLENGE AND ‘ADVERSE SCRUTINY’

Stewart Room

This chapter explores the issues of challenge and scrutiny, identifying when these situations may arise, their impacts and the steps that can be taken to deal with them.

CHALLENGE AND SCRUTINY ARE INEVITABLE

An unavoidable truth of data protection is that processing activities will be regularly subjected to challenge, criticism and scrutiny, often by people who are adverse to the controller, the processor, or the purpose that the processing serves. This can happen not only when there is operational failure, such as after a security breach, but even when the processing results from good intentions, such as an aim to serve the wider interests of humankind. For ...

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