Creating a comprehensive ROPA

14/02/2024 | IAPP

In an article for IAPP, BP Data Privacy Counsel Helga Turku discusses how businesses can create user-friendly and easy-to-maintain formal records of processing activities (ROPA). Turku writes that most modern data protection laws instruct businesses to maintain a ROPA as a direct requirement or indirectly due to the need to comply with notice and impact assessment requirements. While emphasising the importance of maintaining a comprehensive ROPA, Turku provides some valuable tips and tricks to create a practical and durable document.

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Records of Processing Activities, RoPA, audit, privacy management

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