Data Protection Lawyers in Georgia
Data protection advice should follow how personal data is actually collected, used, shared, stored and deleted. Policies are evidence only when they describe and control those real information flows.
What our data protection work covers
We help businesses apply Georgia's current Personal Data Protection Law to customer, employee, website, marketing, vendor, CCTV and cross-border processing. Work includes mapping, legal basis, notices, processor terms, governance, rights handling, impact assessment, transfers and incident response.
Legal and commercial context
The current Georgian law should be analysed on its own terms. The EU GDPR may also affect a Georgian company because of its establishment, offering or monitoring activities, group arrangements or contracts, but it does not automatically apply to every business in Georgia.
Since 2 March 2026, the State Audit Office has been the legal successor to the former Personal Data Protection Service for supervision of the lawfulness of personal-data processing. Current guidance, filing routes and supervisory practice should therefore be checked against the State Audit Office and the amended consolidated law, not an archived authority page alone.
A practical programme begins with systems and decisions: which data enters, who determines purpose, which vendor handles it, where access occurs, how long it is retained and how a request or incident is recognised. The legal role of each party should match the contract and operation.
Scoping the decision, evidence and completion record
At the start of this instruction, counsel separates the immediate commercial decision from longer-term remediation. For data protection, the initial workstreams usually connect data mapping, lawful processing and notices and records. They are sequenced around the first agreed step—interview business and technical owners and inventory systems and vendors.—so management knows which conclusion is needed now, which issue is a dependency and which improvement can follow after the transaction or operating decision.
The evidence file should remain intelligible to a director, investor, bank, auditor or regulator who was not present during the original discussions. It therefore links processing and system inventory, privacy notices and consent language, employee and recruitment documents and vendor and intra-group data terms to the factual assumptions and applicable public sources. Counsel tests that record for risks such as notice and practice diverge, consent is used where it is not appropriate and controller/processor roles are misclassified and records unresolved points rather than silently treating them as confirmed facts.
Completion is defined by usable output, not the delivery of a generic memorandum. Depending on scope, the closing record will include data map and role matrix, gap and remediation report and privacy notice suite and an implementation list showing approvals, signatories, filings, notices, owners and dates. Any conclusion that depends on tax, accounting, technical evidence or foreign law is identified with the responsible specialist and the date on which that dependency must be resolved.
Workstreams designed around the business decision
Data mapping
Document categories, subjects, purposes, systems, recipients, locations, retention and security owners.
Lawful processing
Assess legal basis, proportionality, transparency and special-category or high-risk issues.
Notices and records
Prepare customer, employee, website and applicant notices and internal processing records.
Vendor and group terms
Allocate controller/processor roles, instructions, confidentiality, security, assistance, return and audit.
Rights and incidents
Create intake, identity, assessment, response, evidence and escalation procedures.
High-risk change
Review new products, monitoring, AI, profiling, biometrics, large-scale processing and transfers before deployment.
How the legal work is organised
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Interview business and technical owners and inventory systems and vendors.
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Map purposes, legal roles, bases, disclosures, retention and transfers.
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Prioritise high-risk gaps and any immediate rights or incident issue.
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Prepare documents, contract amendments, registers and staff procedures.
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Train responsible roles and test a sample request, deletion and incident scenario.
Documents and evidence to prepare
The exact request is tailored to the matter. A first review commonly starts with:
- processing and system inventory
- privacy notices and consent language
- employee and recruitment documents
- vendor and intra-group data terms
- retention and deletion schedule
- rights-request register
- incident response and breach record
- impact and transfer assessments where required
Risks we test
Legal review focuses on consequences that can affect authority, value, timing, compliance or enforceability:
- notice and practice diverge
- consent is used where it is not appropriate
- controller/processor roles are misclassified
- vendor contract omits assistance or deletion
- data is retained without a purpose
- rights or incidents are not recognised and escalated
Typical deliverables
The agreed deliverable should help the company act, obtain approval and retain a reliable record of the decision.
Official public sources
These links are starting points for the current public legal framework. The operative consolidated text, amendments and facts should be checked when advice is given.