{"id":3713,"date":"2021-12-02T09:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/news\/sandra-benabou-obtient-la-certification-afnor-en-tant-que-dpo\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:45:51","slug":"sandra-benabou-obtient-la-certification-afnor-en-tant-que-dpo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/news\/sandra-benabou-obtient-la-certification-afnor-en-tant-que-dpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Benabou just got the AFNOR certificate as a DPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3712 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ACP_delegue-protection-donnees_coul-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, certification of the <strong>Data Protection Officer <\/strong>is not mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>But it surely does enhance <em>trust<\/em> and indicates a certain level of <em>quality services <\/em>provided by the certified DPO.<\/p>\n<p>It is also an efficient <em>GDPR compliance tool<\/em> from the data controllers\u00a0 perspective who need to implement adequate <strong>&#8220;organisationnal measures&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In France, the certificate is exclusively issued by <strong>bodies that has been approved by the CNIL, <\/strong>based on prerequisites related to training, professional experiences and skills tests of the candidate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H2O Avocats<\/strong> has therefore chosen to rely on <strong>AFNOR <\/strong><strong>certification,<\/strong> obtained last November by<a href=\"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/team\/sandra-benabou\/\"><strong> Sandra Benabou, <\/strong><\/a>Partner for confirming their <em>strong commitment<\/em> towards their clients engaged in <strong>GDPR compliance processes<\/strong>, as well as to ensure being continuously up-to-date and skilled on <strong>data protection issues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, certification of the Data Protection Officer is not mandatory. But it surely does enhance trust and indicates a certain level of quality services provided by the certified DPO. It is also an efficient GDPR compliance tool from the data controllers\u00a0 perspective who need to implement adequate &#8220;organisationnal measures&#8221;. In France, the certificate is exclusively<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/news\/sandra-benabou-obtient-la-certification-afnor-en-tant-que-dpo\/\" class=\"more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[668,669,670,671,672,556,673,674,675],"news-category":[537,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3713\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h2o-avocats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}