The key day-to-day missions of an outsourced DPO
Discover concretely what an outsourced DPO does for your organization, from daily tasks to one-off missions.
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Recurring missions
The regular activities that shape your outsourced DPO's day-to-day.
Maintaining the records of processing
Ongoing update of the records of processing activities (Article 30 GDPR). Adding new processing, modifying existing ones, removing obsolete ones.
Handling data subject requests
Receiving, analyzing and processing requests for access, rectification, deletion, portability and objection within the one-month legal deadline.
Legal and regulatory watch
Tracking GDPR developments, EDPB guidelines, supervisory authority decisions and new regulations (NIS2, DORA, AI Act).
Day-to-day advisory
Single point of contact for all data protection questions: new projects, contractual clauses, data transfers, cookies, marketing.
Periodic missions
Specific interventions triggered by events or deadlines.
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)
Carrying out impact assessments for processing likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
Handling personal data breaches
In case of an incident: severity assessment, notification to the supervisory authority within 72 hours if needed, communication to data subjects, documentation and remediation plan.
Training and awareness
Running GDPR awareness sessions for the teams, deploying e-learning modules, creating role-specific best-practice guides.
Audit and reporting
Periodic compliance audits, GDPR Score measurement, drafting reports for the management and governance committees, preparing for supervisory authority inspections.
A typical day for your outsourced DPO
📋 Review of new rights requests and platform alerts
💻 Weekly check-in with IT lead on a new CRM project
📝 Updating the records of processing following a new partnership
📑 Reviewing a contractual clause with a sub-processor
🔍 Conducting a DPIA for a scoring tool
✉️ Replying to a data access request from a former employee
📰 Watch: new supervisory authority recommendation on cookies
📊 Preparing the monthly compliance report for the executive committee
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