Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), certain organisations are required to appoint an individual to act as their data protection officer (DPO). Others may choose to appoint a DPO on a voluntary basis. In either case, your firm will need to consider who should be the DPO, what the DPO’s duties will be and what the firm’s obligations are in relation to the DPO.
For information on the circumstances where UK GDPR requires you to appoint a DPO, see Practice Note: Data protection officer—law firms and DPO appointment decision tree.
You should consider whether to appoint a DPO even where you are not required to. Guidelines on DPOs published by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party and subsequently endorsed by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) (EDPB guidance) and Information Commission’s Office (ICO) guidance encourage voluntary appointment of a DPO, but with an important caveat—it doesn’t matter whether your DPO’s appointment is voluntary or mandatory, if your firm has a DPO, all the requirements of the UK GDPR relating to DPOs apply—see Practice Note: Data protection officer—law firms—Voluntary...
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