Data protection officer
The person an organisation designates to advise on and monitor its compliance with data protection law, and to be the contact point for regulators and data subjects (GDPR Articles 37–39).
A DPO is mandatory for public authorities, and for organisations whose core activities involve large-scale, regular and systematic monitoring of people or large-scale processing of special categories of data (Article 37(1)). The DPO must have expert knowledge, report to the highest level of management and act independently, and may be an employee or a contractor.
Source: GDPR Arts. 37–39 ↗
Related terms
ClauseTrail watches vendors' subprocessor lists, DPAs, privacy policies, terms and AI terms, and tells your team what changed and by when to object.