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Data protection in practice

A survey by the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) notes that less than half of responding data protection officers assess that their own organisation works continually and systematically with data protection.

IMY has now published the report Data protection in practice, which is based on a survey of data protection officers in over 800 organisations. The report provides an indication of the conditions under which data protection is applied in organisations required to have data protection officers.

Less than 4 in 10 of data protection officers judge that their own organisation works continually and systematically with data protection. Only half feel that they are able to explain the importance of data protection issues to management.

The survey shows also that half of the officers are not included in a timely manner. Every fourth lacks allocated time for data protection and only every other feels that the allocated time they do have is sufficient.