Do you want to hear some DPO Stories? Anonymised, obviously. Listen on with Stuart Anderson of XpertDPO The GDPR Series

Today on The GDPR Series podcast, we talk generally about life as a DPO and a few of the challenges that can arise, particularly independence and having to give the medicine when it’s needed!  Our guest today values relationships and lives his motto – your partner for compliance.  Need a DPO or thinking about becoming one?  Listen to find out more.

Our guest today is Stuart Anderson the multifaceted and talented man behind XpertDPO!  Stuart shares some real life experience around getting to know clients intimately, giving difficult advice and dealing with data subjects exercising rights.  We discuss how an expert can save you time and money especially when dealing with subject access requests.  Stuart has been instrumental in putting together and delivering Ireland’s first QQI accredited data protection course.  We take on board his advice to keep the training budget in as a line item – upskilling and keeping current is so important!  Stuart’s services cover data protection (GDPR) and cyber security and he offers practical, tailor-made solutions for your organisation.

If you need a DPO, EU Rep or some consulting or an audit done, give Stuart a call or drop him an email!

Tel: +353(0)16788997

E-mail: info@xpertdpo.com

Stuart’s Links:



* XpertDPO Website

* A to Z of the GDPR



Philipa Farley:  Hi, and welcome to our podcast called the GDPR Series, where we discuss data protection, privacy and cyber security matters that ordinary people in everyday businesses face. We have a series of really interesting and lovely guests, and we hope you enjoy listening.  Thank you so much Stuart Anderson, from XpertDPO, for joining us today for a small chat on GDPR and data protection.

Stuart Anderson:  Super, it’s great to be here.

Philipa Farley: I know, it’s fantastic! We met on LinkedIn, and for those of you who don’t know us, we, it’s kind of like, I suppose, we are an unofficial support group, professionally and personally, because this work is not easy. You know, it’s kind of what I was saying yesterday on Twitter, we absorb a lot of what humanity has to offer, and some days can get quite difficult. So, it’s great to have friends in this space. And, I really do consider you to be a good friend at this stage. So, thank you. Yeah, thanks for the chats and the time. Okay, so we have got your website open here, and you go under XpertDPO.com: your data protection partner. You do consultancy and outsourced DPO services. But I do know that you are in-house, in some places, we won’t sort of talk about clients on this chat. We have said to just keep it general. But yeah, do you want to give a brief introduction?

Stuart Anderson:  Yeah. So yeah, I’m Stuart. It’s great to be here. And before we get into that, I mean, I think it’s really important the point that you just made, you know, that there’s a few of us that talk in the group chat on LinkedIn. And I think that’s really important because, you know, we’ll go into a little bit about what we do on the outsourced stuff, but I’m in the peculiar position that I do work in-house for some clients, a number of days per month and we also do outsourced things. So, we see both sides of that and really, at this stage, my opinion is that, whether you work internally inside a client or externally, it can be pretty lonely sometimes. And, you know, we don’t always deal with the nice, you know, rose-tinted view of the world. Sometimes, we have to make decisions that aren’t easy. Sometimes,