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GDPR Compliance for Personal / Free Accounts
Hi, I work with various charities in the UK who often use free Dropbox accounts to share files for boards of trustees, teams etc. There is some confusion as to whether the GDPR compliance steps ...
- Hi Tom
As somebody in the UK the biggest thing you need to make sure is that the end users whos data is being stored is aware of it being stored AND that it is stored outside of the EU. Same goes if they email things in they need to know where those email servers are (e.g. Office365 = USA etc.).
Mark
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Super User IIIt is not incorrect at all.
I'm in the UK and it is acceptable to use things like Safe Harbour to do so as the requirements are based upon the specifics of individuals things may be different (I deal with parents of children in a swim school, not holding massive amounts of personal data etc.).
So, I have informed all my staff and customers that I use Dropbox (and Office365 incidentally), what I store on it, how I store it and how we have risk assessed its safe (e.g. the Safe Harbour compliance etc.) and I'm leaving it at that.
I'm in the UK and it is acceptable to use things like Safe Harbour to do so as the requirements are based upon the specifics of individuals things may be different (I deal with parents of children in a swim school, not holding massive amounts of personal data etc.).
So, I have informed all my staff and customers that I use Dropbox (and Office365 incidentally), what I store on it, how I store it and how we have risk assessed its safe (e.g. the Safe Harbour compliance etc.) and I'm leaving it at that.
Safe Harbor has not been applicable for three years, now it is the Privacy Shield that regulates relations between the US and the EU. Your answers confuse users
