10 GDPR jokes doing the rounds - to ease the pain

Happy GDPR day

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After months of preparation by advice firms and businesses across the continent, the GDPR deadline day has finally arrived, so Professional Adviser has pulled together some of the best GDPR jokes - it's all relative - to ease the pain

It has been a laborious time for many preparing for the European regulation and the last couple of weeks have seen email inboxes fill up with companies asking customers and clients whether they would like to keep receiving their marketing and allow them to keep their personal data. So, to celebrate General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline day, Professional Adviser has brought together some of the best comedic responses to add some light relief to the long-awaited and often annoying regulation. In no particular order, here are the 10 best jokes we could get our hands on ...

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