WHAT IS GDPR

WHAT IS GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is in the news these days — for good reason. This sweeping new law applies to all companies/ businesses/ website owners that collect and process data belonging to European Union (EU) citizens, even if this is done outside of the EU. This also includes companies with operations in the EU and/or a web site or app that collects and processes EU citizen data.

Before now, EU citizens have had ‘control’ over their data via the ‘1995 Data Protection Directive’, however the 1995 Directive isn’t great in practice, because it leads to different laws in different member states.

The GDPR replaces the existing EU Data Protection Directive, and is a fundamental change to the way organizations must approach data privacy, providing consistency and one regulation across all EU member states which applies to all EU citizens.

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