GDPR-Compliant Password Manager

Password managers store the keys to your entire digital infrastructure: login credentials for email, cloud services, banking, customer databases, and administrative systems. A breach of your password manager could expose every system your organisation uses. Under GDPR, credentials that provide access to personal data are themselves subject to appropriate technical safeguards, and storing them with a non-EU provider introduces jurisdictional risk. European password managers combine zero-knowledge encryption (where even the provider cannot access your vault) with EU-based infrastructure. This means your credential vault is protected both cryptographically and jurisdictionally. For organisations subject to GDPR, using a European password manager demonstrates the kind of robust technical measures that data protection authorities expect to see.

GDPR Compliance Checklist

1 Data stored in EU/EEA
2 Data Processing Agreement available
3 GDPR-compliant privacy policy
4 Right to data portability
5 Right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
6 Data breach notification procedures
7 Zero-knowledge encryption ensuring the provider cannot access vault contents
8 All encrypted vault data stored exclusively on EU-based servers
9 Admin controls for immediate access revocation and credential rotation during employee offboarding

Compliant Products (6)

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Passbolt

Open source password manager for teams

Free
Luxembourg
🇱🇺🇪🇺
GDPRDPA
Open Source
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Proton Pass logo

Proton Pass

Encrypted password manager from the makers of Proton Mail

Free
Geneva
🇨🇭🇩🇪
GDPRISO 27001DPA
Open Source
heylogin screenshot
heylogin logo

heylogin

Passwordless enterprise credential manager from Germany

Free
Kiel
🇩🇪
GDPRDPA
KeePassXC screenshot
KeePassXC logo

KeePassXC

Community-driven open source offline password manager

Free
Community project
🇩🇪
GDPRDPA
Open Source
Ory screenshot
Ory logo

Ory

Open source identity and access management platform

Free
Munich
🇩🇪🇪🇺
GDPRSOC 2DPA
Open Source
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Bare.ID logo

Bare.ID

German managed identity and access management platform

From €250/mo
Stuttgart
🇩🇪
GDPRISO 27001DPA

What Makes a Password Manager GDPR Compliant?

Is LastPass still safe to use after its data breaches?
LastPass suffered major breaches in 2022 that exposed encrypted vault data and unencrypted metadata including website URLs. While master passwords were not directly compromised, users with weak master passwords faced real risk of vault decryption. Beyond the breach itself, LastPass is a US company subject to US jurisdiction. European password managers with zero-knowledge encryption and EU-based infrastructure provide both the cryptographic protection of a modern vault and the jurisdictional protection of European data law. For businesses handling EU personal data, the combination of breach history and US jurisdiction makes LastPass a difficult choice to justify.
What does zero-knowledge encryption mean for a password manager?
Zero-knowledge encryption means that your password vault is encrypted and decrypted entirely on your device using a key derived from your master password. The password manager provider never has access to your master password or the decryption key, and therefore cannot read the contents of your vault. Even if the provider's servers are breached or compelled by a government authority to hand over data, the encrypted vault is unreadable without your master password. This is the gold standard for password manager security and is offered by leading European providers like Proton Pass and Heylogin.
How do European team password managers handle employee offboarding?
When an employee leaves, you need to revoke their access to shared credentials and ensure they can no longer access company systems. European team password managers offer admin controls to immediately disable a user's account, remove them from shared vaults, and trigger credential rotation for any passwords they had access to. Some platforms provide audit logs showing exactly which credentials the departing employee accessed. Under GDPR, the offboarding process itself must be documented, and European tools typically generate compliance-ready audit trails of access revocation actions.

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Passbolt

Open source password manager for teams

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Proton Pass

Encrypted password manager from the makers of Proton Mail

Try Proton Pass

heylogin

Passwordless enterprise credential manager from Germany

Try heylogin

KeePassXC

Community-driven open source offline password manager

Try KeePassXC

Ory

Open source identity and access management platform

Try Ory

Bare.ID

German managed identity and access management platform

Try Bare.ID

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Where These Products Host Data

🇱🇺 Software in Luxembourg

Law of 1 August 2018
🇨🇭 Software in Switzerland

Federal Act on Data Protection (nDSG/nFADP)
🇩🇪 Software in Germany

Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG)

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Passbolt

Open source password manager for teams
Proton Pass

Encrypted password manager from the makers of Proton Mail
heylogin

Passwordless enterprise credential manager from Germany
KeePassXC

Community-driven open source offline password manager
Ory

Open source identity and access management platform
Bare.ID

German managed identity and access management platform