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by azemetre 729 days ago
What does DPA stand for? Guessing it's not Drug Policy Alliance, the first hit on Google.
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josephg 729 days ago
Data protection agency. Eg, Australia: https://www.oaic.gov.au/ UK: https://ico.org.uk/ EU: https://www.edps.europa.eu/_en , etc.
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1vuio0pswjnm7 729 days ago
Data Protection Authority

"Under the law the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) should enforce our rights in each EU member state."

https://noyb.eu/en/faqs

List of DPAs:

https://noyb.eu/en/project/dpa

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david_p 729 days ago
in this context, DPA usually means Data Processing Agreement.

I’m assuming GP meant DPO, for Data Protection Officer, the person responsible for enforcing GDPR (or similar laws) in a company.

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