Do you work with language resources that contain information about living people? You may be working with “personal data” according to the (relatively) new General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. This free event on March 30 can help you find out more about your legal obligations:

The CLARIN Café will be devoted specifically to the rights of data subjects in the GDPR, and it will provide answers to the following questions, among others:

What are the rights granted to data subjects by the GDPR?
Are these rights limited when personal data are processed for the purposes of language research?
How to handle data subjects’ requests related to the exercise of their rights?
Who is responsible for handling such requests?

If you have questions about how the GDPR may or may not apply to your research, check out KU Leuven’s Privacy Portal and don’t hesitate to contact the experts there with specific questions. If you’re wondering how to safeguard personal data in a legal way, your local ICT help desk will also be happy to assist.