The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union
law that came into force in May 2018 and aims to ensure the protection of EU
citizens’ personal data. The GDPR sets out a number of obligations for organiza
tions processing personal data, including obtaining data subjects’ explicit consent
to process their data, ensuring that data is only used for specific purposes and
implementing appropriate security measures to protect data. The regulation also
gives data subjects the right to request access to, correct or delete their personal
data, as well as the right to object to the processing of their data and data porta
bility. The GDPR applies to all organizations that process personal data of EU
citizens, regardless of their location, and has significant global reach, affecting
businesses around the world that handle personal data of individuals in the EU.
In this context, this study focused more specifically on the area covered by the
Intermunicipal Community of Douro (CimDouro) in order to assess the state of
implementation of the GDPR in Local Public Administration, particularly in the
municipalities that constitute this Cim.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio