Announcing GDPR Tracker?—?Track the compliance of your SaaS vendors
Over the past months, we launched gdprchecklist.io (it says what it does), but also gdprform.io (Product Hunt calls it “Google Forms?—?but for GDPR”, an easy to configure form to manage and simplify Data Subject access requests). Today, we’re proud to announce a new community project called GDPR Tracker?—?a crowdsourced directory helping companies and all of us to track and follow the GDPR Readiness, compliance efforts and data handling practices of their cloud services.
GDPR is not a one-time-thing, the law is in place since April 2016, had a transition time of 2 years to permit governments, institutions, and companies to become compliant and will be applied as of May 25th, 2018. The reality is that many companies are still in the early phase of reaching compliance or even learning about GDPR. We believe that SaaS companies should lead by example by transparently sharing their readiness, compliance and demonstrate best practices.
So why did we build all these GDPR tools?
Implementing GDPR as an EU-based SaaS company has been an interesting journey for us. Inside one of our ventures called Apideck, we’re bullish on data portability and promote an open and integrated SaaS ecosystem.
Soon after starting our compliance process, we experienced and needed clear and understandable tools to help us both run through all the referenced GDPR legal articles, but also consider how we will be managing “Right of Access by the data subject” or “Right to be forgotten”.
Hence we built the GDPR Checklist and GDPR Form as we believe these tools would help other companies to overcome the struggle of GDPR compliance.
Due to the unbundling of SaaS, a lot more data processors are part of the technology stack of a company. As a truly cloud-native company, we use over +100 cloud services. By estimation, an average European company is effectively using 50 or more cloud apps.
In a GDPR era, this poses an extra layer of complexity.
One of the challenges staying compliant is keeping track of your (sub)processors.
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