| dc.description.abstract | Since the GDPR became law in May of 2018, larger corporations have been required to take measures immediately in order not to risk large fines for mishandling user data. Smaller companies have been given leeway and time to find their bearings with the fairly new regulation after voicing concerns about not having enough time to do what was required or learn about the subject. Now two years have gone by, and when doing a survey on the subject for this project several small businesses still stated that they do not know enough and are not ready. When looking online a small business owner would not find a quick and easy way to gain general knowledge about what is required specifically for their business. The tool developed in this project took aim to solve that by creating a free, easy to use and trustworthy tool that should help any small business get started on their compliance work.
By exploring the GDPR itself in great detail, the relevant articles pertaining to compliance in small business in particular were picked out, and they were boiled down to five key questions. These five questions ended up being the key component in the Innafor concept, forming the basis for creating an automated custom privacy policy to help small bisinesses. By answering the five questions truthfully, a general picture of how a small business handles user data in regards to the GDPR comes to light, and via an algorithm this is generated into a custom privacy policy - a must have for any company, big or small. From here it would be up to the small business to follow up on what is clearly stated in their custom generated privacy policy.
This tool was developed via codesign including small businesses themselves in the brainstorming and workshops required in the ideation and creation phase of this project. The design was further iterated by testing and retesting it on these small businesses themselves. Concluding this project is a plan to get the tool developed and released into the market during the fall of 2020. | |
