Privacy & GDPR

DAC8 and GDPR: Balancing Tax Reporting with Data Privacy

DAC8 requires CASPs to collect, process, and transmit significant volumes of personal data. This creates a tension with the EU's General Data Protection Regu...

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under DAC8

Understanding the legal basis for personal data processing is fundamental to DAC8 compliance. This article examines the specific GDPR provisions that authori...

DAC8 Data Retention Requirements

How long must CASPs retain DAC8-related data? This question involves the intersection of DAC8's reporting needs, national transposition requirements, and GDP...

User Consent and DAC8: What CASPs Must Communicate

While CASPs do not need user consent to process data for DAC8 compliance, they do have transparency obligations under GDPR. This article explains what CASPs ...

DAC8 Privacy Impact Assessment: A Template for CASPs

A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) helps CASPs identify and mitigate privacy risks associated with DAC8 data processing. This article provides a prac...

Cross-Border Data Transfers Under DAC8

DAC8's automatic exchange mechanism involves the transfer of personal data between EU Member States. This article examines the data protection framework gove...

DAC8 and the Right to Erasure: Handling User Deletion Requests

Users have the right to request deletion of their personal data under GDPR Article 17 (the "right to be forgotten"). But how does this right interact with DA...

Data Security Requirements for DAC8 Reporting

Protecting DAC8 data from unauthorized access, breaches, and misuse is both a GDPR obligation and a practical necessity. This article outlines the security m...