TopCat Ranking

At a regular ordinary educational seminar, the Top Cat team discussed the features and practice of applying the EU General Data Protection Regulation. This event was held on April 12, 2022 to improve the skills and techniques of ensuring data protection. The main issues on the agenda included data minimization and ensuring its accuracy, which are among the key principles of the GDPR.

The GDPR is primarily aimed at giving citizens control over their own personal data, and simplifying the regulatory framework for international economic relations by harmonizing regulation within the EU.

The GDPR replaced the Data Protection Directive of 1995. The Regulation was adopted on April 27, 2016, entered into force on May 25, 2018 after a two-year transitional period; unlike the Directive, it does not require the governments of EU member states to make any changes to local laws and is thus directly binding. This applies not only to EU member states, but also to any legal entity that processes personal data of EU residents.

Since 2021 Top Cat no longer counts points earned on WCF shows.

It is well known that WCF has long tried to ban the use of Top Cat.
While we, respectively, were doing everything for:
1. The clubs to have a convenient work environment that is dynamic and immediately adjustable to (all too common) rule changes.
2. Users to have a way to quickly submit applications and monitor their shows at a glance.
3. Have more active show scene, with breeders actually competing for leaderboard ranks and not just participating for titles.

And yet, working with a system so remarkably hostile to us became too difficult, to be worth it.
Starting 2021 we move on to working with WOC https://en.woc.center/, and are open to applications from other systems.

At a regular scheduled educational seminar the Top Cat Rating team discussed theoretical foundations, features and practice of applying the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This event was held on October 29, 2020 with the aim of improving information security skills and tools. The main issue on the agenda was to consider the Guidelines 07/2020 on the concept of controller and processor in the GDPR. Another topic for discussion consisted in increasing importance of personal data protection in connection with a significant growth of the IT market during the coronavirus pandemic.

The modern information space requires strict compliance with the requirements of official IT security protocols, and in particular, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies in 28 countries of the European Union. This document provides residents of the EU member states with understandable and effective tools to control their personal data on the Internet. In particular, it is about the ability to create such data, receive it, correct it at your discretion, restrict access to it, and, if necessary, delete it.

The GDPR officially entered into force on May 25, 2018, and the Top Cat Rating team assumed a voluntary obligation to comply with all its principles and requirements from the very beginning. Despite the fact that Top Cat is a Russian company, the Rating covers a number of countries, including those belonging to the European Union and, accordingly, falling under the General Data Protection Regulation. One of the main features of this document is its extraterritorial scope, which means that it shall not only apply to the territory of the EU, but also regulate responsibilities of the companies that process personal data of EU citizens and residents in the course of their activities, regardless of where such organizations are actually located.

However, the main incentive for Top Cat to assume the obligation to comply with the Regulation is its responsibility towards each member of the Rating, wherever he/she resides. Indeed, only proper understanding and practical implementation of international standards can build a foundation for a responsible attitude to personal data in the information environment, which is the only acceptable behavioral pattern in the modern world.