GDPR
The European Union's data-protection regulation. Applies to any organization processing the personal data of EU residents — regardless of where the organization is based. Fines up to 4% of global annual revenue.
Mapped, monitored, and audit-ready.
Every GDPR control has a place in Talarity — with cross-mapping, automated evidence, and continuous validation.
Talarity's pre-built control library covering GDPR, with linked evidence, owners, and testing schedules.
Answer once, prove everywhere. Talarity's mapping engine reuses your evidence across every framework you run.
- Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) per Article 30
- Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) handling logs
- Lawful basis records and consent capture
- Cross-border transfer mechanisms (SCCs, adequacy decisions)
- Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
Your GDPR dashboard
Every completed GDPR assessment updates this automatically — where you stand now, how that has changed, and which areas need work.
What gets easier with Talarity.
DSAR volume is unpredictable — and Article 12 requires response within 30 days.
DSAR workflow with intake, identity verification, sub-request decomposition, and a 30-day clock. Bulk DSAR support for breach scenarios.
Article 30 records of processing (RoPA) drift the moment a new system or vendor goes live.
RoPA generates from your data inventory and vendor contracts. New system added? RoPA flags it for owner review.
Cross-border transfers post-Schrems II require Standard Contractual Clauses + transfer impact assessments — most teams haven't documented these well.
TIA workflow with country-risk lookups, SCC clause selection, and supplementary measures evaluation. Auditable trail for every transfer.
Lawful basis tracking — consent vs. legitimate interest vs. contract — is hard to maintain at scale.
Consent management with version history. Every personal-data field tags to its lawful basis; basis changes trigger a re-consent workflow.
GDPR — common questions
- What is the difference between a controller and a processor?
- A controller determines the purposes and means of processing personal data; a processor acts on the controller's documented instructions. The distinction drives your obligations — controllers own lawful basis, transparency and data subject rights, while processors owe security, sub-processor control and assistance to the controller. The roles are determined by what you actually do with the data, not by what a contract labels you, and one organisation is frequently a controller for some processing and a processor for other processing.
- When is a Data Protection Impact Assessment required?
- A DPIA is required where processing is likely to result in a high risk to individuals — notably systematic and extensive automated evaluation producing legal or similarly significant effects, large-scale processing of special category data, and large-scale systematic monitoring of publicly accessible areas. Supervisory authorities also publish their own lists of operations that require one. The assessment has to happen before the processing starts, which makes it a design-time gate rather than a review.
- How quickly must a personal data breach be reported?
- Controllers must notify the competent supervisory authority without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach, unless it is unlikely to result in a risk to individuals. Where the risk to individuals is high, affected individuals must also be told without undue delay. Processors must notify their controller without undue delay. Because the clock runs from awareness, when you became aware is itself a fact you need to be able to evidence.
- What is a Record of Processing Activities?
- Article 30 requires controllers and processors to maintain a record of their processing activities — purposes, categories of data and data subjects, recipients, transfers, retention periods and security measures. There is a limited exemption for organisations under 250 employees, but it falls away for processing that is not occasional, risks individuals' rights, or involves special category data, so most organisations end up needing one. It is usually the first document a supervisory authority asks for.
- How can personal data be transferred outside the EEA?
- Transfers need a legal basis: an adequacy decision for the destination country, or appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules, or a narrow derogation. Where safeguards are used, a transfer impact assessment considers whether local law undermines them and whether supplementary measures are needed. This is why knowing where each sub-processor actually stores and accesses data matters more than where the vendor is headquartered.
Working with GDPR
Step-by-step walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·8 min readPackage your audit evidence once — for the auditor, regulator, or customerAn auditor asks for your evidence and it's scattered across framework reports, vendor attestations, policy sign-offs, and resilience tests. Evidence Distribution Packages assemble the signed artifacts you already produced into one immutable package, then hand it to each audience as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy — with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·7 min readFramework readiness to audit package — the whole cycle on one screenAudit prep usually means a spreadsheet scramble — chasing evidence, tracking which controls are covered, re-checking what's expired. Talarity keeps a live readiness picture for every framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS, and more) — coverage, gaps, evidence freshness — and packages it into an auditor-ready export in one click.
- Compliance·7 min readContinuous compliance is a tooling problem, not a process problemEvery compliance program eventually decides it needs to be 'continuous.' Most then try to fix it with process. The actual fix is upstream — in the tools that make evidence freshness a default, not a sprint.
- Compliance·14 min readThe evidence nobody can deleteA legal hold is a promise that a specific piece of evidence will still exist months from now, made to people who will check. This is where you place one in Talarity, what the record has to survive, and — just as important — what a hold does not freeze.
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