The Lawful Basis Minefield: Why Getting It Wrong Undermines Everything

In this episode of InfoSec Insider – Talk DP, Aimee Brown and Rachael Salter, both Consultants at URM, explore lawful basis under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), why choosing the right basis is fundamental to compliant processing, and some of the common mistakes organisations make in practice. Aimee and Rachael discuss:

• Why identifying the correct lawful basis is fundamental to GDPR compliance
• Why organisations so often misuse consent and how to determine whether it is appropriate
• How legitimate interests, legal obligation, public task and vital interests apply in practice
• What changes when processing special category personal data
• The most common lawful basis mistakes and how organisations can avoid them.

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