Exin Privacy and Data Protection Foundation PDPF Exam Questions

Answer : A

The principle of limitation of purposes says that personal data must be collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes and cannot be further processed in a way incompatible with those purposes.

When the data is sold to another company, we can conclude that it was acquired by a controller for a specific purpose and that it subsequently sold it without the owner's knowledge and consent.

Answer : C

Article 30 in its first paragraph legislates:

1. Each controller and, where applicable, the controller's representative, shall maintain a record of processing activities under its responsibility.

Recital 82 mentions:

In order to demonstrate compliance with this Regulation, the controller or processor should maintain records of processing activities under its responsibility. Each controller and processor should be obliged to cooperate with the supervisory authority and make those records, on request, available to it, so that it might serve for monitoring those processing operations.

Answer : B

Answer : B

Article 28 of the GDPR in its paragraph 3 mentions:

This contract or other normative act stipulates, inter alia, that the subcontractor:

a) processes the personal data only on documented instructions from the controller, including with regard to transfers of personal data to a third country or an international organisation, unless required to do so by Union or Member State law to which the processor is subject; in such a case, the processor shall inform the controller of that legal requirement before processing, unless that law prohibits such information on important grounds of public interest;

b) ensures that persons authorised to process the personal data have committed themselves to confidentiality or are under an appropriate statutory obligation of confidentiality;

c) takes all measures required pursuant to Article 32;

d) respects the conditions referred to in paragraphs 2 and 4 for engaging another processor;

e) taking into account the nature of the processing, assists the controller by appropriate technical and organisational measures, insofar as this is possible, for the fulfilment of the controller's obligation to respond to requests for exercising the data subject's rights laid down in Chapter III;

f) assists the controller in ensuring compliance with the obligations pursuant to Articles 32 to 36 taking into account the nature of processing and the information available to the processor;

g) at the choice of the controller, deletes or returns all the personal data to the controller after the end of the provision of services relating to processing, and deletes existing copies unless Union or Member State law requires storage of the personal data;

h) makes available to the controller all information necessary to demonstrate compliance with the obligations laid down in this Article and allow for and contribute to audits, including inspections, conducted by the controller or another auditor mandated by the controller.

Answer : D

Controller. Correct. The controller is responsible for adequate data security measures and must be able to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR. (Literature:A, Chapter 2)

Data protection officer (DPO). Incorrect. The DPO has expert knowledge and assists the controller or processor to monitor internal compliance.

Processor. Incorrect. The processor is the one who processes personal data according to the instructions of the controller. The controller remains ultimately responsible though.

Supervisory authority. Incorrect. The controller needs to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR if requested by the supervisory authority.

Answer : B

Compliance. Incorrect. Compliance means meeting rules or standards.

Data protection by design and by default. Correct. By default, the minimum of personal data is to be processed for the shortest possible period, using the best possible security measures to prevent unauthorized access. Data protection by design refers to processing that includes appropriate measures to implement data protection principles. (Literature: A, Chapter 8; GDPR Article 25)

Embedded data protect. Incorrect. Embedded data protection is the result of data protection by design.

Answer : C

Compulsory Corporate Rules are rules used internally by multinational companies to transfer personal data. Thus, it is possible to transfer data between them, even if the destination company is in a country that does not have an adequate level of data protection. These rules are like an internal corporate code of conduct and do not cover transfers of personal data outside the corporate group.

Do not confuse 'Compulsory Corporate Rules' with 'Standard Contractual Clauses'. The last are clauses in contracts for international data transfer between companies (customer and supplier relationship) where the destination country does not have an adequate level of data protection, and depends on authorization from the Supervisory Authority.

Article 58 of GDPR

3. supervisory authority shall have all of the following authorisation and advisory powers:

a) to advise the controller in accordance with the prior consultation procedure referred to in Article 36.