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The Transparency Register is Coming – Is Your Organisation Ready?
Starting from 2024, Finland will be the first Nordic country to establish a statutory transparency register. The law applies to organisations and persons professionally engaged in lobbying and its advice. It applies to national-level lobbying, meaning the parliament and the ministries. Transparency register was part of the Government Programme of Prime Minister Sanna Marin. The…
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What is the GDPR footprint of your advocacy work?
Any organisation that does effective advocacy work tends to accumulate stakeholder data of politicians and officials over time. This information is often related to documenting past meetings or to the planning of future advocacy work. How should this information be managed to stay in GDPR compliance? Storing stakeholder data, whether on paper or in digital…
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The Danger of the Forgotten Stakeholder List
In a recent case, France’s personal data protection agency CNIL fined US firm Monsanto 400,000 euros for a GDPR violation. The company had compiled personal data files of politicians, journalists, activists, and scientists seen as being influential in the debate over glyphosate use in Europe. While compiling stakeholder lists is not in itself illegal, it…
