GDPR & ESG: What You Need to Know

Introduction

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) requirements are increasingly important for companies, playing a critical role in how investors, customers, and employees engage with businesses.

Traditionally, ESG has focused on issues like forced labour, child labour, and greenhouse gas emissions. However, privacy and data protection are now recognised as essential elements of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Compliance with the GDPR alone is no longer enough; companies must manage data responsibly to maintain trust with customers, employees, business partners, and investors.

This webinar offers practical guidance on how businesses can integrate privacy and data protection responsibilities into their broader ESG strategies, ensuring compliance while fostering trust and sustainability in the digital age.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will explore the intersection of privacy and data protection within the context of the ESG framework. It will examine how privacy and data protection impact all three pillars of ESG:

• Environmental: Companies should reaffirm commitments to minimal data processing and storage limitations, move away from physical data centres by adopting cloud storage, and invest in energy-efficient technologies to support sustainability effort
• Social: With the rise of data-driven technologies such as AI and big data mining, companies must consider the ethical implications of processing sensitive data (e.g., health, genetic, or ethnicity data), ensuring they uphold strong privacy standards while addressing the social aspects of ESG
• Governance: Businesses must uphold individuals' fundamental rights to privacy and data protection in all data processing activities. Voluntary ESG standards may require companies to disclose their impact on customer privacy, particularly in relation to data breaches and the loss of customer data

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Wednesday 28th May 2025

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