What is GDPR? 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 Protecti...
The GDPR is a regulation adopted by the European Parliament inApril 2016, replacing an outdated data protection directive from 1995. It carries provisions that require businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens for transactions that occur within EU member states...
If you’re a marketer, we expect you’ve heard about theGeneral Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)coming into force on 25 May 2018. The legislation will have a big impact on the way marketers approach their work and how organizations obtain, store, manage or process the personal data of EU ci...
While most of the restrictions of the GDPR apply to you as the controller, the processor must also comply, and it’s here that we see some potentially unintended (but possibly predictable) consequences of the legislation. Google is unsurprisingly seeking to minimize their risk (I say it’s ...
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 ...
terms of service to prepare for the new legislation. European regulators closely scrutinize Facebook's improved information security policies to ensure compliance. The recent Cambridge Analytica data breach is the kind of data security scenario that the EU hopes that GDPR regulations can help to ...
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...
GDPR is a piece of legislation that was approved in April 2016. European authorities have given companies two years to comply and it came into force Friday. It replaces a previous law called the Data Protection Directive and is aimed at harmonizing rules across the 28-nation EU bloc. ...
GDPR Enforcement and Penalties for Non-Compliance In comparison to the formerData Protection Directive, the GDPR has increased penalties for non-compliance. SAs have more authority than in the previous legislation because the GDPR sets a standard across the EU for all companies that handle...
Since then, the GDPR has become the world’s most influential data privacy law, impacting legislation in other countries and affecting how companies do business in Europe. One of the most newsworthy aspects of GDPR enforcement is the fines levied against some companies found to have violated the...