Motorola Hellosecurity, has understood the importance of compliance with the GDPR, and periodically undergoes compliance verification audits with this regulation, thus bringing to market reliable CCTV hardware and software for electronic security projects from the residential, commercial and industrial levels, as well as those of security and defense of the highest level.

- by José Clavo

What is GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation, which for its acronym in English is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a regulation that originates in Europe, regarding the inappropriate use that many giants in computer industries were making with the data collected from the users of their services. When I refer to the giants of the computer industry, I am talking about well-known companies in the field of Internet search engines, online sales companies, social networks, manufacturers of mobile electronic equipment, hospitality industry, banks, electronic security, in short, everything that works exchanging data using as a vehicle the global network of the internet.

In today's world, in which any management of everyday life is done through digital means such as: computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. Information, whether personal, object or asset, is converted into data packets of 1 and 0. This data, also called meta-data, contains sensitively private information and is transmitted through computer networks and is stored by each of the companies that provide their services through cyber platforms.

This is how these companies were sharing this information, without limitations and without a legal framework that protected the users of these services. This data was often sold as commercial tokens to other companies that could have used this data innocuously, sometimes and in an obscure way in many others, and there was no legal way to limit the disclosure or dissemination of this information.

One of the best known examples worldwide, and well documented in the Netflix series entitled "Nothing is Private" that shows a documentary about Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting company and the social media giant Facebook, which symbolizes the dark side of the networks from the 2016 presidential elections in the USA and the elections during Brexit in the UK.

This documentary shows how data and meta-data were used to achieve the manipulation of collective social behaviors, managing to generate behavioral trends with the aim of obtaining economic, political, marketing, strategic, intelligence, and security benefits. This type of behavior of service providers whose operational platform is based on the computer industry, which not only affects societies, but also sensitive sectors such as the security and defense of countries, gave rise to European states intervening to generate regulations that protect the individual and their human rights, and the protection of social collectives, and the interests of countries in terms of security and privacy, thus creating the GDPR.

Other facts that influenced the creation of the GDPR and its American equivalent NDAA, was the verification of the investigations carried out by the American federal intelligence institutions, on the leakage of tactical, strategic information, ranging from state secrets, to industrial and scientific intellectual rights, extracted by the Chinese and Russian intelligence departments by hacking equipment intentionally equipped with what in the industry of the Computing is known as back-door. Equipment that when connected to networks opens an imperceptible back door through which they extract information without the authorization of users.

Now, what is the GDPR really?

It is a compilation of procedures and conditions in which compliance with good practices is required in the design and manufacturing processes and implementation of equipment and supplies used in computer networks, both for hardware manufacturers and software manufacturers, as well as professionals responsible for the implementation of management protocols and administration of data and meta-data networks.

The GDPR contemplates audit processes that must verify each link in the chain, from the selection of the components that make up the hardware, to the start-up of the computer network, focused on the security and protection of the information that transits in said network. Failure to comply with any of the processes contemplated by the GDPR, imply sanctions that could be of an administrative nature, fines or even imprisonment in the worst case.

For the sector of video surveillance equipment manufacturers, the GDPR demands the design and manufacture of equipment and systems that comply not only with the selection of electronic components from certified suppliers, but design high-level encryption systems that hinder or prevent the exposure of that stored data in case the systems are attacked by experienced hackers. Being that the data that can be extracted, is indecipherable thus saving the integrity of it.

Motorola Hellosecurity has a permanent contract with several companies specialized in cybersecurity breach detection, to practice periodic attacks on equipment manufactured under our brand. This allows the timely correction in case a cyber weakness is detected in any of our equipment, allowing immediate corrective action to the design engineers of our systems.

At Motorola Hellosecurity, we are proud to be one of the brands in the video surveillance industry that complies with the regulations of the GDPR, bringing to market, products that meet the traditional Motorola quality standard, which have given it a level of preference and reliability of its customers worldwide during the last 90 years of development in technology equipment.