The reinforcement of legal regulation of personal data protection was conditioned by the increasing tendency towards systemic and large-scale processing of personal data by large companies, especially in terms of protecting the rights and interests of data subjects. The institute of data protection officer, which has not yet been reflected in the Georgian law, represents a kind of mechanism ensuring the proportionality between the legality of data processing, corporation and interests of data subject. The paper is focused on the interdisciplinary insight of this institute in the perspective of corporate law, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the law on personal data protection, so as to determine its institutional function in the organizational structure of the legal entity of private law.

Keywords: Corporative governance, data protection, data protection officer (DPO), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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