GDPR
GDPR governs how you handle EU personal data — and the fines for getting it wrong reach 4% of global turnover. Agency's forward-deployed engineers + AI operate your GDPR program end-to-end, so you don't need privacy lawyers or new headcount on staff.
Automation can map data. It can't make the judgment calls.
Agency Comply · GDPR
Overview
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union's comprehensive data protection law governing how organizations collect, process, store, and transfer personal data of EU residents. GDPR applies to any organization that handles EU personal data — regardless of where the organization is headquartered.
Non-compliance carries fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover or 20 million euros, whichever is greater.
Beyond fines, GDPR violations damage customer trust and can block market access to the EU entirely.
Who Needs GDPR
Any organization that collects, processes, or stores personal data of EU residents — whether as a data controller or data processor — must comply with GDPR. This includes companies based outside the EU that serve EU customers.
Technology & SoftwareSaaS companies with EU customers or users must demonstrate GDPR compliance in data processing agreements, privacy policies, and technical controls.
Retail & EcommerceOnline retailers processing EU customer data (purchase history, addresses, payment information) face direct GDPR obligations.
Media & EntertainmentContent platforms, adtech companies, and streaming services collecting behavioral data, cookies, and user preferences from EU users.
Financial ServicesFintechs, payment processors, and banking platforms handling financial and personal data of EU customers.
Health & Life SciencesHealthtech companies processing EU patient data face GDPR's special category data protections alongside HIPAA.
TransportationLogistics, ride-sharing, and mobility platforms processing location data and personal information of EU users.
Key Challenges
Seven places GDPR programs stall
How Agency Delivers
Agency operates your GDPR compliance program as a continuous, managed service — enforcing data protection controls, maintaining documentation, and ensuring accountability without requiring your team to become privacy law experts.
Continuous Data Protection Enforcement — Agency's U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, enforce encryption, access controls, and data handling policies across your cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and identity providers — ensuring personal data is protected in accordance with GDPR requirements at all times.
Automated Processing Records — Agency maintains records of processing activities (Article 30) automatically, documenting data flows, processing purposes, lawful bases, and retention periods across every system that handles EU personal data.
Vendor Risk Management — Agency assesses and continuously monitors every vendor that processes EU personal data on your behalf, ensuring data processing agreements are in place and vendor security posture meets GDPR standards.
Cross-Border Transfer Compliance — Agency tracks data residency requirements and ensures that cross-border transfers comply with GDPR's transfer mechanisms (Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decisions, or binding corporate rules).
DPIA Support — Agency identifies high-risk processing activities and maintains the documentation required for Data Protection Impact Assessments, ensuring they are completed, reviewed, and updated as processing activities change.
Cross-Framework Mapping — Agency AI maps GDPR requirements to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA controls, ensuring that work done for GDPR compliance carries forward to every other framework your organization pursues.
Managed outcome
Automation can map data. Agency makes the calls.
Automation can map data; it can't make the lawful-basis and DPIA judgment calls. Agency's U.S.-based engineers do.
Agency operates your GDPR compliance program as a continuous, managed service — enforcing data protection controls, maintaining documentation, and ensuring accountability without requiring your team to become privacy law experts.
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Your security and compliance team, without the headcount.
U.S.-based forward-deployed engineers, supercharged by proprietary AI, operate your program end-to-end — on top of the tools you already trust. Automation ends where judgment begins.
Common GRC Questions
GRC Platform & Virtual CISO FAQ
Answers to common GDPR questions — controller vs. processor, DPIAs, transfers, and what a virtual CISO actually does for your program.
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