Which GDPR principle would a Spanish employer most likely depend upon to annually send the personal data of its employees to the national tax authority?

• A. The protection of the vital interest of the employees.
• B. The consent of the employees.
• C. The legitimate interest of the public administration.
• D. The legal obligation of the employer.

SCENARIO
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Dynaroux Fashion ('Dynaroux') is a successful international online clothing retailer that employs approximately 650 people at its headquarters based in Dublin, Ireland. Ronan is their recently appointed data protection officer, who oversees the company's compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy legislation.
The company offers both male and female clothing lines across all age demographics, including children. In doing so, the company processes large amounts of information about such customers, including preferences and sensitive financial information such as credit card and bank account numbers.
In an aggressive bid to build revenue growth, Jonas, the CEO, tells Ronan that the company is launching a new mobile app and loyalty scheme that puts significant emphasis on profiling the company's customers by analyzing their purchases. Ronan tells the CEO that: (a) the potential risks of such activities means that Dynaroux needs to carry out a data protection impact assessment to assess this new venture and its privacy implications; and (b) where the results of this assessment indicate a high risk in the absence of appropriate protection measures, Dynaroux may have to undertake a prior consultation with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner before implementing the app and loyalty scheme.
Jonas tells Ronan that he is not happy about the prospect of having to directly engage with a supervisory authority and having to disclose details of Dynaroux's business plan and associated processing activities.
Which of the following facts about Dynaroux would trigger a data protection impact assessment under the GDPR?

• A. The company employs approximately 650 people and will therefore be carrying out extensive processing activities.
• B. The company will be undertaking processing activities involving sensitive data categories such as financial and children's data.
• C. The company intends to shift their business model to rely more heavily on online shopping.
• D. The company plans to undertake profiling of its customers through analysis of their purchasing patterns.

SCENARIO
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Joe started the Gummy Bear Company in 2000 from his home in Vermont, USA. Today, it is a multi-billion- dollar candy company operating in every continent. All of the company's IT servers are located in Vermont.
This year Joe hires his son Ben to join the company and head up Project Big, which is a major marketing strategy to triple gross revenue in just 5 years. Ben graduated with a PhD in computer software from a top university. Ben decided to join his father's company, but is also secretly working on launching a new global online dating website company called Ben Knows Best.
Ben is aware that the Gummy Bear Company has millions of customers and believes that many of them might also be interested in finding their perfect match. For Project Big, Ben redesigns the company's online web portal and requires customers in the European Union and elsewhere to provide additional personal information in order to remain a customer. Project Ben begins collecting data about customers' philosophical beliefs, political opinions and marital status.
If a customer identifies as single, Ben then copies all of that customer's personal data onto a separate database for Ben Knows Best. Ben believes that he is not doing anything wrong, because he explicitly asks each customer to give their consent by requiring them to check a box before accepting their information. As Project Big is an important project, the company also hires a first year college student named Sam, who is studying computer science to help Ben out.
Ben calls out and Sam comes across the Ben Knows Best database. Sam is planning on going to Ireland over Spring Beak with 10 of his friends, so he copies all of the customer information of people that reside in Ireland so that he and his friends can contact people when they are in Ireland.
Joe also hires his best friend's daughter, Alice, who just graduated from law school in the U.S., to be the company's new General Counsel. Alice has heard about the GDPR, so she does some research on it. Alice approaches Joe and informs him that she has drafted up Binding Corporate Rules for everyone in the company to follow, as it is important for the company to have in place a legal mechanism to transfer data internally from the company's operations in the European Union to the U.S.
Joe believes that Alice is doing a great job, and informs her that she will also be in-charge of handling a major lawsuit that has been brought against the company in federal court in the U.S. To prepare for the lawsuit, Alice instructs the company's IT department to make copies of the computer hard drives from the entire global sales team, including the European Union, and send everything to her so that she can review everyone' s information. Alice believes that Joe will be happy that she did the first level review, as it will save the company a lot of money that would otherwise be paid to its outside law firm.
The data transfer mechanism that Alice drafted violates the GDPR because the company did not first get approval from?

• A. The Data Protection Authority.
• B. The European Commission.
• C. The European Data Protection Board.
• D. The Court of Justice of the European Union.

When does the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) recommend reevaluating whether a transfer tool is effectively providing a level of personal data protection that is in compliance with the European Union (EU) level?

• A. Every year.
• B. Every three (3) years.
• C. After a personal data breach.
• D. On an ongoing basis.

Through a combination of hardware failure and human error, the decryption key for a bank's customer account transaction database has been lost. An investigation has determined that this was not the result of hacking or malfeasance, simply an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Which of the following accurately indicates the nature of this incident?

• A. A data breach has occurred because the loss of the key has resulted in the loss of confidentiality or integrity of the data.
• B. A data breach has not occurred because no data was exposed to any unauthorized individual.
• C. A data breach has not occurred because the loss was not the result of hacking.
• D. A data breach has occurred because the loss of the key has resulted in the data no longer being accessible.