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GDPR compliance: the technical side
The technical and organisational measures the law asks for, actually configured on the systems and documented. Legal opinion stays with your adviser, the configuration is ours.
In short
Technical data protection support for companies in Albania: access control, encryption, backup, network segregation, account management and documentation of the measures in place, aligned with Albania's GDPR-harmonised law 124/2024.
Many foreign business owners assume data protection is a lighter matter in Albania. It is not any more. With law 124/2024, in force since the very start of 2025, Albania replaced its 2008 framework with a text explicitly aligned to the European GDPR: the same principles, the same data subject rights, breach notification on tight deadlines, records of processing activities and penalties on the same scale as the European ones.
In practice that means an Albanian company, even a small one, has to be able to show how it handles employee and client data. The legal side is written by a lawyer or a privacy consultant. The part that concerns the systems, meaning who can access what, how devices are protected, where copies end up, who is deactivated when they leave, is where we come in.
What we configure and document
Access control
One account per person, permissions assigned by role, multi-factor authentication on critical access, and a deactivation procedure that starts the same day someone leaves.
Device encryption
Encrypted disks on laptops and desktops. A lost computer without encryption is a data breach; with encryption it is very often just a lost computer.
Network segregation
Separation between the company network, the guest network and other device types, so one weak point does not open the whole archive.
Backup and retention
Protected copies and, just as important, deletion rules: keeping everything forever is not caution, it is one more liability.
Record of technical measures
A document describing how the environment is configured. That is what you need to show when someone asks what measures are in place.
Breach handling
A ready procedure to establish what happened, contain it and give your legal adviser the technical facts within the deadlines the law sets.
Who does what
The split of responsibilities we propose, to avoid grey areas.
| Area | Quadiware | Legal adviser or DPO |
|---|---|---|
| Legal basis for processing | No | Yes |
| Notices and consent | No | Yes |
| Records of processing | Technical input | Drafting and ownership |
| Technical security measures | Yes | Adequacy review |
| Technical handling of a breach | Yes | Assessment and notification |
| Appointing and running the DPO role | No | Yes |
Law 124/2024 also governs the data protection officer role and when one must be designated: check with your adviser whether your organisation falls into those cases.
The point that surprises companies arriving from the EU
Having the company in Albania does not move the problem outside Europe. If you process data of people located in the European Union, the GDPR still applies to that processing, and Albanian law applies on top. In practice it pays to configure the systems to a single, higher standard.
Questions about this service
No. The data protection officer is a role with its own requirements and responsibilities, and it is not the supplier configuring the systems. We are happy to work alongside the DPO or privacy consultant you already have.
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