# Data protection

> **The risk of incompliance with a data privacy regulation as well as unauthorised access, breach, theft, or damage of data.**&#x20;

Employees working from abroad may violate security regulations in their home or destination country, such as the GDPR or the local ban on the use of VPNs. Such a breach could also be based on customer contracts that prohibit service providers from providing their services from certain countries.\
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This risk dimension assesses the company risks of unauthorized access, breaches, theft or damage of data during your employee's trip abroad, as well as ensuring coverage by and compliance with adequate data privacy laws similar to GDPR in the destination country.

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**Consequences**

* GDPR fines of up to € 20.000.000 or 4% of the global annual turnover
* Civil claims, e.g. resulting from client data breaches
* Commercial and/or reputational damage, e.g. resulting from data theft or damage

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**Handling of risk**

To assess and mitigate risks the following information is needed

·  Nationality

·  Second nationality

·  Reason of stay

·  Duration of trip

·  Previous trips in that country

·  Tax payment

In order to assess data protection potential risks a workation can entail some information is required such as data confidentiality level. The destination country will play the main role on this dimension as a result of the different data policies applied in the world.\
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**Deep-dive articles about data protection**

·  [The Rise of Workations: Employer Compliance and Data Security](https://www.getworkflex.com/post/the-rise-of-workations-employer-compliance-and-data-security)
