A company's director's notebook is accidentally wet, which permanently damages the equipment so that it cannot recover its data. The lost data concerned the financial reports of the company. What…

The correct answer is C. A security incident. The lost reports did not contain personal data, in this case GDPR is not applicable and is a security A data breach is whenever something that has not been planned with personal data happens, be it improper processing, improper sharing, loss of data, deletion, etc. In other…

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A company’s director’s notebook is accidentally wet, which permanently damages the equipment so that it cannot recover its data. The lost data concerned the financial reports of the company. What happened in this case according to GDPR?

Options

AA vulnerability
BA threat
CA security incident
DA data violation

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A
5% (3)
B
2% (1)
C
91% (51)
D
2% (1)

Explanation

The lost reports did not contain personal data, in this case GDPR is not applicable and is a security A data breach is whenever something that has not been planned with personal data happens, be it improper processing, improper sharing, loss of data, deletion, etc. In other words, personal data must be used for a specific purpose, respecting the life cycle of the same (from collection to exclusion), any situation that escapes this cycle must be reported as a data breach.

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