GDPR: Why everyone is freaking out over four letters You may have heard of the General Data Protection Regulation. It may sound boring, but it's really important and CNBC has a guide to help you understand it. It's a piece of European Union legislation that could have a far-reaching imp...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that updated and unified data privacy laws across the European Union (EU). The GDPR was approved by the European Parliament on April 14, 2016, and went into effect on May 25, 2018. It replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of ...
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new set of laws and regulations to govern how the private data of EU citizens is collected, managed, and shared. This new legislation was approved by the EU Parliament in April 2016 and will take effect May 25th, 2018, at which time...
Does the GDPR apply to my use of TrueCommerce services? The legislation applies to companies active in the EU, regardless of whether this is because they are selling to consumers there, have offices there, or are conducting business to business transactions with EU companies. If your use of ou...
Businesses, large and small, are in the midst of preparing for compliance with the European Union’s (EU) new data privacy laws: The General Data Protection Regulation, or the GDPR, which will go into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR is very broad in scope and can apply to businesses...
of GDPR are going to be severe. Depending on the type of violation, companies will incur fines of up to €20 million or 4% of their global annual revenue (whichever is greater). These big penalties show that the regulators mean business and companies ...
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation — called GDPR for short — may be the most comprehensive and important legislation about personal data privacy
Why is all this happening? GDPR seeks to expand and update rules that have been in place since 1995, and unify a patchwork of different laws into one piece of legislation. The European Union said the new rules are necessary to protect consumers in an era of huge cyberattacks and data le...
As many GDPR provisions/EU references within the GDPR will not be relevant to the UK post-Brexit, the government issued legislation last year to make “necessary and appropriate changes to the GDPR and to the DPA 2018 so that the law continues to function effectively after the UK has left ...
A key component of the GDPR legislation isprivacy by design. Privacy by design requires that all departments in a company look closely at their data and how they handle it. There are many things a company has to do in order to be compliant with GDPR. If you have yet to to take the ...