Among the four winners of the Erasmus+ programme: Jean Monnet Module there is a project of the Department of Automated Control Systems – «Protection of Personal Data in the European Union». Within the next three years, it will be implemented by Assistant Professors Anastasiia Doroshenko and Kvitoslava Obeliovska, as well as Assistant Olha Fedevych. The project coordinator Anastasiia Doroshenko speaks about the project and how it will be implemented.
What was the reason for creating such a project? The fact is that a year and a half ago, namely on May 25, 2018, the GDPR requirements – the General Data Protection Regulation requirements – came into force in the European Union. According to them all companies and organizations with the access to personal data of any user are responsible for their dissemination. These requirements set out all the principles of this responsibility. There are certain sanctions for non-compliance. This could be a fine of € 20 million or 4% of annual turnover.
The peculiarity is that this regulation applies not only to European countries, but to any organization that works with the data of European users. Lots of our students develop different applications, in outsourcing companies they write certain programs, processing data, so anyone who has made an application is subject to these requirements, even though he is not aware of them. Despite this, one can be fined.
