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The AI Act is a historic turning point for Europe. It promises to strengthen trust in AI and force organizations to reconsider how they use it and ensure compliance.

A key GDPR tool, the Record of Processing Activities tracks the use of personal data and helps organizations ensure compliance while avoiding heavy penalties.

Join our webinar to simplify your GDPR compliance and prepare for the AI Act. Our all-in-one software is designed for DPOs and lawyers and includes mapping, registers, risk analysis, and unified governance.

Adequacy is strengthening its governance and developing innovative solutions to help companies comply with the RGPD and beyond; with over 600 customers in 80 countries, the company now aims to accelerate its international expansion.

The NIS 2 directive reinforces cybersecurity obligations in Europe. Find out who is affected, what is changing in practice and how to effectively prepare for it.

Europe's dependence on U.S. digital services costs €264 billion a year and undermines its sovereignty. With extraterritorial legal influence, industrial backwardness, and economic short-termism, building sustainable digital autonomy requires a leap of faith.

This major update to ADEQUACY rethinks ergonomics, enhances RGPD functionalities, and paves the way for future developments in AI and security.

Adequacy appoints Fabrice de Salaberry, B2B SaaS expert, as CEO to accelerate the French regulatory compliance specialist's European growth. His arrival marks a new phase of development for Adequacy.

The EcoVadis gold medal gives us a distinction that ranks us among the 5% of the most exemplary companies in terms of social responsibility. This reference label recognizes our concrete actions in favor of the environment, human rights and ethics, and confirms our desire to combine digital innovation, GDPR compliance and sustainable development.

Adequacy a été classé numéro 1 des logiciels de conformité RGPD en 2024 par le Magazine Décideurs. Cette distinction récompense notre engagement à rendre la conformité accessible, sécurisée et souveraine, grâce à une solution complète adoptée par plus de 10 000 entités à travers le monde. Un gage de confiance pour toutes les organisations qui placent la protection des données au cœur de leur stratégie.

Alors que le Data Privacy Framework devait rétablir un cadre de confiance entre l’Europe et les États-Unis, sa stabilité est aujourd’hui remise en question. Des membres du Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, garant clé de ce dispositif, ont été poussés à la démission, fragilisant un accord déjà critiqué pour sa base juridique instable. À l’approche d’un potentiel bouleversement politique aux États-Unis, l’Europe peut-elle encore s’appuyer sur un système aussi précaire pour protéger les données de ses citoyens ?

Dominique Pissoort, DPO de la STIB, nous raconte comment Adequacy a simplifié la gestion du RGPD et transformé la conformité des données dans cette grande entreprise publique.

On the occasion of the DPO Morning organized by Le Printemps des DPO, our experts spoke during a morning dedicated to the challenges of DPOs. Claire de la Fouchardière, Product Manager, and Alessandro Fiorentino, Product Owner, shared their expertise on a current topic: “The GDPR is no longer alone: what solution is there to ensure your compliance with other data protection regulations? ”. A rich exchange around strategies, tools and challenges related to global compliance to be discovered in replay.

Discover how Ma Petite Mercerie, leader in online haberdashery sales in France, optimized its GDPR compliance with Adequacy. Camille Bradfer reveals to us the advantages of the solution, its impact on the internal organization and the development of teams' skills, while sharing her vision of the DPO of tomorrow.

At the DPO Forum Lyon 2024, Phenix Privacy and our team presented best practices for conducting effective impact assessments (AIPD), strengthening GDPR compliance and anticipating future regulations such as the AI Act.

Present at the DPO Spring 2024, Alessandro Fiorentino led two masterclasses dedicated to data breaches and the collaboration between DPO, RSSI and DSI in the face of new regulations (NIS2, DORA, IA Act). An event rich in expertise, at the service of ever more operational and strategic compliance.

Philippe Ebert, DPO for the Dassault Aviation Group, transitioned from a GDPR register managed in Excel to an industrial solution capable of coordinating around thirty correspondents, including its subsidiaries and international offices. He shares his experience with Adequacy: improved auditability, a higher quality register thanks to guided mode and consistency checks, traceability of modifications useful in case of a CNIL audit, and a strengthened transparency policy towards employees. He also provides his vision for the DPO of tomorrow, who will need to leverage their network of correspondents to address the AI Act and Data Act.

During an event organized with CCI France Belgium, we brought together experts and companies around the intersecting challenges of the GDPR, NIS2, DORA and the IA Act. An opportunity to strengthen the synergies between DPO and CISO, and to present our compliance solution adapted to European requirements and the Belgian market.

Alors que la directive NIS II entrera en application en octobre 2024 et que l’IA Act approche, les organisations doivent anticiper les impacts croisés de ces réglementations avec le RGPD. En combinant sécurité des systèmes, protection des données et gestion des risques, elles renforcent leur conformité globale et préparent une gouvernance numérique responsable et alignée sur les exigences européennes.

As Legal Director and DPO of the Figaro Group, Bénédicte Wautelet treated GDPR as a business project as early as 2017 and launched a tender to equip its BUs and subsidiaries for compliance. She selected Adequacy for two key advantages: an off-the-shelf tool natively designed for GDPR, and deployment supported by consultants, including for completing data processing records. She discusses the benefits of the SaaS model, the trusting relationship built with the teams to train its ambassadors and integrate acquired companies, the complementary profiles of Adequacy, and shares her vision of a DPO who is operational, technical, and legal, poised to expand their role towards compliance with a true business twist and a 360-degree vision.

At the DPO Forum Paris 2024, Alessandro Fiorentino gave an unmissable conference on the collaboration between DPO and RSSI to ensure compliance with the RGPD. He addressed key issues such as clarifying responsibilities, effective communication, and ongoing risk assessment, while linking NIS2, cybersecurity and GDPR. An event rich in exchanges and learning, underlining the importance of collective commitment to data protection.

A lawyer since 1991 specializing in intellectual property, digital law, and personal data, Nicolas Courtier pursues three complementary activities: lawyer, outsourced DPO (personally or with DPOsystem), and associate lecturer at Aix-Marseille University. As an advisor, he systematically recommends at least two compliance tools to his clients, who, in the vast majority of cases, choose Adequacy for both the quality and reliability of the tool and the team's expertise. He explains why a SaaS-based register surpasses a simple Word or Excel file, discusses the processing record library, which has been enriched over the years, and shares his vision of a DPO who is both technical and legal, poised to embrace NIS2, the DMA, the DSA, and the AI Act within a global vision of information systems.

During the University of DPO 2024, a major event in GDPR compliance, we were pleased to partner with AFCDP for this celebration of the association's 20th anniversary. Over 1000 participants exchanged views over two days rich in discussions and sharing around the challenges of protecting personal data.

Adequacy x Altanis Protect: a webinar to help DPOs and CISOs better collaborate and ensure GDPR compliance. Learn about roles, responsibilities, tools, and best practices for sustainable compliance, with a focus on NIS2 and AI.

We were present at the 18th University of DPO in Paris. A key event on GDPR compliance, with experts and more than 1000 participants.