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Legal & compliance
Hire a data protection officer in Greece and Cyprus
An external data protection officer who runs privacy as a working practice, not a binder on a shelf.
The GDPR expressly allows a data protection officer to be external, engaged under a service contract, and for many Greek and Cypriot companies that is the practical shape of the role. What matters is that the practice is real: records of processing that reflect what the business actually does, impact assessments before risky processing starts rather than after, breach procedures that have been drilled, and processor and vendor agreements handled as a compliance process instead of a signature ritual.
The data protection officers on Hellenic Talent come from privacy and compliance practices at consultancies and Big 4 firms and from in-house privacy roles in data-heavy sectors. The role calls for expert knowledge of data-protection law and practice rather than bar membership, which means people who have run privacy programs, not merely written policies, and who have handled questions from the Hellenic Data Protection Authority when they came.
What does a data protection officer actually do?
- Serve as the named external data protection officer: the contact point for staff, customers, and the supervisory authority
- Keep records of processing accurate as systems, vendors, and purposes change
- Run data protection impact assessments before risky processing starts, not after
- Prepare the company for breaches: response procedures, notification drills, and clear roles for the first hours
- Handle processor and vendor agreements as a working compliance process
- Review new products, systems, and campaigns for privacy consequences while they can still be changed
- Train staff so privacy practice survives contact with daily work
How to choose the right data protection officer
What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.
Programs run, not certificates
Expert knowledge of data-protection law and practice, evidenced by programs run rather than certificates collected.
Knows the authority first-hand
Has dealt with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority or the Cypriot Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, and knows how each one works.
Will contradict management
Independent enough to tell management what it does not want to hear, which is what the role exists for.
Names the legal boundary
Clear that formal legal interpretation and representation belong to your lawyers, and says so before a question forces it.
Controls at mid-market scale
Practical about mid-market resources, with controls sized to the company rather than copied from a bank.
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Tell us what you are trying to get done
A short call is enough to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether the network has the right data protection officer for it.
Engagements run remote, hybrid, or on-site, for clients in Greece, Cyprus, and the rest of the world.