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What does EEA mean? In legal practice, EEA refers to the European Economic Area: the single‑market bloc comprising all EU Member States together with the EFTA States Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (Switzerland is not part of the EEA). The term appears in specific UK and Irish legislation and EU instruments, and is also used descriptively to identify the states to which single‑market rights and obligations (free movement of goods, services, persons and capital) apply. Post‑Brexit, the UK is not an EEA State. In UK legislation, some pre‑exit references to the EEA have been saved or modified by EU exit regulations, so practitioners should check the...

Ireland: EU GDPR Personal Data Breach Management, Risk Assessment and Notification - Practical Guide Based on DPC and EDPB Guidance

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Practice notes

Data security sits at the heart of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). The sixth data protection principle—integrity and confidentiality—requires you to adopt suitable technical and organisational measures so that personal data is processed with appropriate security, including:

protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing
accidental loss, destruction, or damage

This Practice Note reflects Data Protection Commission (DPC) guidance on personal data breaches under the EU GDPR, and also draws on guidance from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

Data security requirements

Article 32 puts practical detail behind the GDPR’s integrity and confidentiality principle. You must implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to achieve a level of security proportionate to the risk, taking into account:

the nature, scope, context, and purpose of processing
the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of data subjects

Where appropriate, your security measures should include:

the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data
the capability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of processing systems and services
the capability to restore availability and access to personal data promptly...

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