What Does GDPR Compliance for Mobile Apps Means for Your Business App?

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With the recent implementation of the GDPR act by
the European Parliament and European Council for
all EU citizens, the internet is all set to fight
off cyber data breaches and welcome an age of a
secure internet browsing.
The General Data Protection Regulation act was
proposed in 2016 and was finally implemented on
25th May 2018.
Even after a month of its implementation, the
understanding of the GDPR has not been clearly
understood by many mobile app owners and what it
means for the future of mobile app development
for customers who are EU citizens.
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What is GDPR?
GDPR is a very vast topic to cover.
The short explanation for it would be that GDPR
is a regulation act on data privacy and
protection of all the citizens of european Union
and is applicable on all the territories lying
under the European Economic Area (EEA).
The detailed explanation for it would be that
GDPR has been designed keeping in mind the rising
concern of leakage of personal data while
browsing online.
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After the Cambridge Analytica incident and its
alleged utilization in swaying public opinion
illegally in political events like the Brexit
vote, the need of securing personal data became
extremely significant. In the wake of these
needs, the GDPR act is exactly what was required.
GDPR is a way to give control to the citizens
over their personal data and make sure that the
data is not used for any purpose without their
knowledge.
In the wake of these needs, the GDPR act is
exactly what was required. GDPR is a way to give
control to the citizens over their personal data
and make sure that the data is not used for any
purpose without their knowledge.
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Also, this increases the legal responsibility of
every data processor by manifold. App developers,
publishers and marketers, all not only need to
keep the data they collect from the customers
safe but also have to ensure that a complete
record of all processing operations of that data
is maintained and have to disclose, to the users,
the details of how they plan to use the data
collected.
All these regulations have to be satisfied by any
business app or website doing business with any
of the countries that lie within the EEA and a
failure to do so can result in a fine of up to 20
million euro.
The fine being substantially huge, every business
owner planning to launch a business app for EU
customers feels like treading on eggshells.
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The complete GDPR document is 88 pages long and
has over 50,000 words in it. This obviously is
too much of information to digest for a person
who is not well versed with legal as well
as cyber security matters. Most app developers
around the world are also trying to get a grip
over all these GDPR changes.
So, to make things simpler for every app
development company which is trying to
contemplate these changes brought in with the
GDPR act, here is a checklist for every mobile
app to be GDPR compliant.
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The Mobile App GDPR Compliance Checklist
The GDPR compliance checklist can be broken down
in 2 parts
AssessmentThe assessment section consists of all
the declarations that an app needs to give the
user while collecting data. The information
provided should answer the following questions
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• A list of all the personal data the app collects
  and stores
• A consent for obtaining all that information
  fairly. There can be no personal data collected
  without the knowledge of the user.
• An assurance that the data is not being held for
  a time longer than necessary and the data is kept
  up to date.
• Limiting access to ensure it is only being used
  for its intended purpose.
• Declaration if the app is collecting or
  processing any special categories of personal
  data, such as sensitive personal data, childrens
  data, biometric or genetic data, etc. and if so,
  the app should meet all the required standards to
  collect, process and store it.

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Plan The planning part of the GDPR compliance is
a bit trickier as it needs the app owner to
declare in detail what happens with the collected
user data. All the following points needs to be
declared and followed by a mobile app

• A clear acceptance that the data collected will
  be stored securely and all the necessary
  encryptions will be used to prevent data theft.
• In case of a data breach, the affected users will
  be notified within 24 hours of the discovery of
  the breach.

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• The details of who will have access to the
  collected data will have to be provided and also
  the details of what the data will be utilised
  for. There can be not misuse of the collected
  user data.

• The user should be notified that if he or she
  wishes to withdraw his or her consent for sharing
  personal data, it is possible to do so at any
  point of time. Every user should be given access
  to be able to delete ones own data from the
  database at any point of time.
• If the app owner intends to transfer the
  collected user data outside EU, he or she needs
  to declare the same and also make sure that there
  are adequate protections in place for the
  security of the data.

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Final Words
With every app owner worried about making his
mobile app GDPR compliant, and the rising level
of intensity of the concern for personal user
data on the internet, it has become extremely
important that you gain more user trust by
ensuring a full-proof GDPR compliance. 
This can only be done if you have highly
experienced mobile app development experts at
your side. Look for reliable experts to implement
the GDPR compliance and prevent your business
from being heavily fined or being blacklisted by
the EU.
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