2024 Annual Report published

The Bailiwick of Guernsey Data Protection Authority is proud to publish its Annual Report for 2024 which details the Office of the Data Protection Authority’s (ODPA) activities under The Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 which came into effect in May 2018.

“2024 was an important and successful year for the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s Data Protection Authority,” said Chairman Richard Thomas CBE.

“We recruited Brent Homan as our new Commissioner and the European Commission confirmed the 'adequacy' of the Bailiwick’s Law and supervisory arrangements. Adequacy is a modest word which hides much significance for the prosperity of financial and other businesses based in Guernsey and for the well-being of all islanders. In a nutshell, it means that, after considerable scrutiny, the safeguards of the 2017 Law and the Authority’s supervisory role were recognised to be sufficiently robust to allow the free flow of personal information to and from the European Union.”

The Annual Report reflects the accomplishments of the ODPA and its staff during the past year..

“A principal objective of the ODPA is to achieve the best possible outcomes in advancing and protecting data protection rights. We pursue that objective by living and breathing our regulatory pillars of balance, trust and partnership,” said Commissioner Brent Homan.

“To state the obvious, the best way to handle a data protection crisis is to avoid it happening in the first place. This is why 2024 brought an elevated focus on outreach and education.”

As the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s independent data protection authority, the ODPA’s purpose is to protect people by driving responsible use of personal information, through, helping organisations ‘get it right’, deterring harmful information handling and taking enforcement action against significant non-compliance.