Allaw today announces its new legal-tech product: Allaw Data Protection Officer as a Service. This product includes the appointment of a data protection officer compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for companies and organizations and leading technologies to ensure their smooth work and the preservation of the necessary evidence. It is a flexible modern platform that allows employees of organizations to receive assistance from a data protection officer on a “one-stop” basis, and the organization to secure evidence and facilitate the implementation of compliance requirements. Started in the middle of last year, Allaw Data Protection Officer as a Service launched a month ago.

The innovative service is tailored to business clients seeking to hire an external data protection officer, and to facilitate this process, it offers its main advantages – a standardized and organized request handling process (LegalDesk), and a collaboration space (LegalSpaces), where answers to relevant data protection questions and training materials can be found on demand. Especially the heads of IT and legal departments of larger companies and organizations are today under pressure to help other employees of the company with personal data protection issues, the workload tends to increase, and Allaw's data protection officer as a service helps to get the necessary help smoothly, efficiently and optimally.

According to the founder of the service, Juridicon, “the data protection officer as a service solves a number of challenges that organizations today face when hiring an external data protection officer. The data controller or processor that appoints the data protection officer is responsible for including him in the relevant business processes and activities. With the help of the Allaw technological solution, the external data protection officer acts as if he were an integral part of the organization, shares his advice with other employees in a common space, and helps to carry out the necessary processes. In addition, the Allaw platform allows you to create an audit trail of all requests submitted to the data protection officer according to selected criteria, for example, by department, type of request, etc. In this way, the organization’s managers can have enough data to identify and manage potential risks, and preserve the necessary evidence that may need to be provided during an inspection of the organization.”

Allaw’s collaboration space allows internal teams of organizations to collaborate with an external data protection officer or members of his/her team, to easily exchange information, documents and knowledge, for example, when conducting an inventory of processed personal data or a data protection impact assessment. All the tools provided by the Data Protection Officer as a Service, such as automatic document generation, can be used in conjunction with other legal self-service tools offered by Allaw, thus further facilitating the work of organizational personnel. The Data Protection Officer as a Service is designed to reduce the burden on employees of companies and organizations in the area of ​​ensuring personal data protection, help avoid human errors and ensure real, rather than formal, compliance with the GDPR requirements. The service will create value both for organizations for which a data protection officer is mandatory under the GDPR, and for those who simply need quick practical advice from a personal data protection officer. Allaw is a service brand of the closed joint-stock company “Juridicon” designed to provide managed legal services. Juridicon, a technology-based knowledge company, operates under the Allaw brand as an alternative legal and compliance services provider serving business clients across a range of industries. Juridicon’s other solution, the legal department as a service, provided via the Allaw platform, has already won the “Legal Service of the Year” award last year at the prestigious “Service of the Year 2019” awards organized by the Lithuanian Business Confederation. Read more about the service, its features, components and available subscription plans here.