Ruaraidh Thomas says firms should welcome the GDPR as it will enable them to harness the power of data to give better business insights...
On 25 May this year, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force giving firms just six more months to comply with new regulation. GDPR aims to bring the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995 up to date with the current world of data, and ever-changing landscape of data usage. Recent significant data breaches show an evidential need for GDPR and serve only to remind us that organisations must take the security of their data extremely seriously. If we look back to July and the Equifax data breach circa 700,000 people in the UK alone were exposed, compromising an ...
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