“Every different use of personal data about someone needs a lawful basis”

While the term “lawful basis” may fail to excite, it’s a rule that’s making the likes of Meta think twice before using your data to train its AI

I’m speaking at a conference in September on “picking the right lawful basis for your processing activity”. Don’t stop reading! I agree it doesn’t sound that enticing, but I promise there is excitement ahead. Every different use of personal data about someone needs a lawful basis, and you have six options. Your activity must be necessary for a contract with them, a legal obligation, vital interests (life or death), a public task, or legitimate interests. The sixth one is the individual’s consent. The tricky thing about consent is that it must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. A tricky part of the others is that word “necessary”. In my preparations, I started rolling out some quick examples for my delegates: “We collect employee PAYE details to send to HMRC” (easy –…

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