privacy port news (English)

The privacy port support for Internet Explorer (IE) 11 will be discontinued on January 08, 2021. 

The form and the tile Websites / Web Applications has been renamed to Websites / social media.

The form „Record of processing activities + Data Protection Impact Assessment“ has been extended to include paper-based technical and organisational measures. Under question „12. Is the processing digital or paper-based?“ you can choose whether the processing is digital or paper-based technical-organisational measures. The selection determines the further content of the […]

The tile and the corresponding form ‚Record of processing activities for processors‘ have been renamed to ‚Processing activities as processor‘. Question 2 ‚In which affiliated companies is the processing activity also operated?‘ has been renamed and reads: ‚Which affiliated companies commissioned the processing activity?‘. Additionally, the automatic subscription of the […]

The form of the Joint Controller tile contains now a text field as part of question 2 for further descriptions.

The form Websites / Web Applications has been extended, so that generally online presences can be documented. New documents are created using this extended form. Existing documents remain in the old structure but can be also accessed via the „Websites / Web Applications“ tile.

We have simplified the workflows for creating required documents in certain forms. In the form „Record of processing activities + Data Protection Impact Assessment“, at the selection of processors for the question „Which processors support the function of the processing activity?”, new processors can also be created. By clicking on […]

In versioned documents under „Show more actions“ (circle with the three dots), there is a new item „Download PDF“. It allows the export of documents as PDF files.

In the form “Record of processing activities + Data Protection Impact Assessment”, the free text field for the explanation of the necessity of a privacy and data protection impact assessment is permanently displayed. Thus, an assessment can be provided, even if a privacy impact assessment is not necessary.

In the form “Processors”, a detailed description can be added below the „Processing Activity“ in a free text field.