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The 12 Days of Christmas - DPO remix

What each festive period brings to Data Protection Officers around the world...

ONE (on a Friday night post 9pm and 2 glasses of mulled wine, natch)

panicked data breach call…

TWO(for projects launched 6 months ago but only just brought to your attention)

DPIA reviews….

THREEmerde)

French employee privacy queries …(

FOUR

days left to respond to that ICO letter

FIVE

... MEGA.... DSARs

SIX(thinking a right to erasure covers everything. Again. Sigh)

consumer queries…

SEVEN

end of year PowerPoint presentations to give

EIGHT (Y)(won't they ever break up for Christmas hols?)

pages of a new ICO guidance document to read...

NINE 

urgent DPAs 

TEN(since the 1st day – help – more mulled wine please!)

New credential stuffing attacks...

ELEVEN 

internal skype calls on the new cookie banner

TWELVE

days of unused holiday entitlement…

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gdpr, dpo, entertainment & media