GDPR and PDF – Are You Ready

Presenter

Neil Pitman founded Aquaforest Limited in 2001 and is the chief architect for the company’s PDF, OCR and SharePoint software products used by thousands of organizations in over 50 countries. Neil has over 30 years’ experience in the software industry in the UK and USA in the areas of database systems, document management and software development tools and has served on the IDT committees of the British Standards Institute (BSI) and was a co-author of the BSI’s publication on the Long Term Preservation of Digital Documents.

Session Description

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) comes into force on May 25th 2018. The GDPR strengthens and unifies data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). Organizations hold vast amounts of personal data in PDF files and need to make sure that their processes and technologies are able to support GDPR requirements including data access requests, the right to be forgotten and many others identified in the 99 articles of the GDPR. The session will provide a brief overview of GDPR requirements and concentrate on PDF-specific aspects including identification of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in PDFs, Exporting, Security and Redaction.

Check out the detailed programme: https://pdfa.org/pdf-days-europe-2018-schedule-of-sessions/

Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Br3nQsSHY