ODPA publishes 2021 Annual Report

The Office of the Data Protection Authority (ODPA) has published the Data Protection Authority’s Annual Report for 2021 which details its activities under The Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 which came into effect in May 2018.

The Annual Report highlights the following progress made towards these five strategic objectives:















































Commenting on 2021’s activities, Emma Martins, the Bailiwick’s Data Protection Commissioner, said:

“In all the work we do across our community to support the highest standards of the protection of our personal data, we will continue to build on the common ground and shared goals that are so important in this digital era. Committing to an ethical and sustainable data environment is increasingly important for the economy but first and foremost it is important for us as human beings.”

The Chairman of the Data Protection Authority, Richard Thomas CBE commented,

“We are fortunate to have the ability to innovate and build a distinctive reputation for the ODPA and, by extension, the Bailiwick. The prolonged pandemic restrictions have forced us to find and develop new ways of working. The social initiative which we launched in 2021, Project Bijou, has demonstrated new ways of getting a wide range of people to share their stories, to explore data protection issues and to engage others.”

READ: Annual Report 2021