Data Protection Officer appointed
Jón Ingi Þorvaldsson was appointed to the post, having been selected from a field of 24 applicants following a thorough selection process.
The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður has appointed a full-time Data Protection Officer, a position that was advertised at the beginning of the summer. Jón Ingi Þorvaldsson has been appointed to the post and
He was selected from a group of 24 applicants following a detailed selection process.
Jón Ingi completed a B.A. and an M.A. in Law in 2011 from the University of Iceland.
In their studies, issues and rules concerning personal data protection were a particular area of interest, and therefore took
Jón Ingi for the Personal Law I and II courses, as well as his master's thesis.
turned to the field of data protection law. A year later, Jón Ingi obtained the right to
Representation before the District Court.
After his studies, Jón Ingi worked for the Liquidation Board of VBS investment bank, but from 2012
He worked as a lawyer at the law firm Jónatansson & Co in general practice.
Legal practice and advocacy.
In March 2017, Jón Ingi was hired by the Housing Finance Fund as a project manager.
implementations of amended data protection legislation. Among the projects there were
mapping of all processing of personal data, creation of a processing register,
processing agreements, privacy policy, review of procedures, along with security-
and an action plan. In that process, it was necessary to familiarise oneself with the information systems
of the fund and gain knowledge of security and information technology matters, but the ILS enjoys
ISO 27001 certification for security and information standards.