GDPR for Technology
Industry-specific guidance on GDPR compliance for technology organisations. Understand the requirements, risk level, and key obligations that apply to your sector.
Compliance Risk Level
This industry faces extensive regulatory obligations and heightened supervisory scrutiny.
About GDPR
The EU's landmark data protection law that governs how organisations collect, store, process, and transfer personal data of individuals in the European Economic Area.
GDPR Impact on Technology
Technology companies face some of the most complex compliance obligations in the EU regulatory landscape. As both data processors and controllers — often handling vast volumes of personal data across multiple jurisdictions — tech firms must navigate GDPR's extraterritorial reach, NIS2's digital infrastructure requirements, the AI Act's obligations for AI system providers, and ePrivacy's electronic communications rules. SaaS providers, cloud platforms, social media companies, and ad-tech firms all face heightened scrutiny from EU regulators, particularly on issues of consent, data transfers, transparency, and algorithmic accountability.
Key GDPR Requirements for Technology
Key GDPR Articles for Technology
Principles relating to processing of personal data
Establishes the seven foundational principles: lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity and confidentiality, and accountability.
Lawfulness of processing
Defines six legal bases for processing: consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public interest, and legitimate interests. At least one must apply to every processing activity.
Information to be provided to data subjects
Requires organisations to provide transparent, concise information about processing purposes, legal basis, data retention, and rights — both when data is collected directly and indirectly.
Rights of the data subject
Covers access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and automated decision-making. Organisations must respond within one month, extendable to three months for complex requests.
Data protection by design and by default
Requires organisations to implement data protection measures from the earliest stages of system design, and to process only the minimum data necessary by default.
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Other Regulations Affecting Technology
Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2)
The updated EU cybersecurity directive that expands security requirements to a broader range of sectors and imposes stricter obligations on essential and important entities.
EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act)
The world's first comprehensive AI regulation, establishing a risk-based framework for the development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence systems within the EU.
ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC)
The EU directive governing privacy in electronic communications, covering cookies, direct marketing, traffic data, and the confidentiality of communications — often called the "Cookie Law".