PA360: Ask your business a number of questions to be GDPR ready

TISA's Peter Smith

Tom Ellis
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Advisers are struggling to get to grips with personal data requirements but need to make sure they can answer a number of simple data protection questions before the impending GDPR deadline, according to TISA's Peter Smith.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline is now just one month away - 25 May - and the association's group head of industry policy liaison argued that, while GDPR should not be looked at in isolation of MiFID II and the Data Protection Act, advisers are particularly struggling with the definition of personal data. Elizabeth Denham - a profile of the GDPR supremo His advice was simple: "Document it, document it, and document it." Smith said advisers, particularly those who are struggling with the implementation of GDPR standards, need to ask themselves and their busines...

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