Question 1

Under GDPR, the European Commission takes the adequacy decision in relation to privacy laws in a third country, territory, sector etc. A subjective approach is taken. For the assessment of whether a third country, a territory, or one or more specific sectors within that third country, or an international organization has an adequate level of protection, who is required to provide an opinion to the Commission?

Options :

A : European Data Protection Board

B : Lead Supervisory Authority

C : Article 29 Working Party

D : Convention 108 Council

Answer: A

Question 2

A newly appointed Data Protection officer is reviewing the organization’s existing privacy policy. Which of the following would be the most critical factor for the review process?

Options :

A : Awareness of the business units about the privacy policy

B : Changes in the legal/regulatory regime

C : Privacy policies of industry peers

D : Foreseeable challenges in the effective implementation of the policy

Answer: D

Question 3

Health insurance firm based in the US uses BPM services provided by an Indian company. It was found that one of the employees of the Indian company exported customer data of the insurance company to another US-based insurance company. Under which of the below ground, the company and its executives in India were also subjected to legal action ?

Options :

A : These actions were not avoided by using data loss prevention tools.

B : No reasonable security practices were implemented to protect data.

C : Employees of the company were allowed to view sensitive personal information.

D : Background checks were not conducted on the individuals.

Answer: B

Question 4

Which of the following provides the legal basis for an Adjudicating Officer in every Indian state & union territory, with the powers of a civil court, to hear complaints and order compensation to the affected individuals?

Options :

A : Indian Civil Code

B : Indian Criminal Procedure Code

C : Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Act

D : Information Technology Act, 2000 & Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008

Answer: A

Question 5

A multinational company with operations in several parts within EU and outside EU, involves internationaldata transfer of both its employees and customers. In some of its EU branches, which are relatively larger insize, the organization has a works council. Most of the data transferred is personal, and some of the data thatthe organization collects is sensitive in nature, the processing of some of which is also outsourced to itsbranches in Asian countries.For the outsourced work of its customers’ data processing, in order to initiate data transfer to anotherorganizations outside EU, which is the most appropriate among the following?

Options :

A : The vendor (data importer) in the third country, and not the exporter is responsible to put in place suitable model contractual clauses, and hence the exporter does not need to take any action

B : Since the data is processed by the vendor outside the EU, the EU directive does not apply and hence there are no legal concerns

C : The data exporter needs to initiate model contractual clauses after obtaining approvals from data protection commissioner and have the vendor be a signatory on the same as data importer

D : The data importer need to notify about the transfer to data protection commissioner in the destination country and exporter need to similarly notify in the EU country of origin

Answer: D

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