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GDPR – too much, too soon for UK businesses?


From May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect every organisation that handles the personal information of every EU resident. It is by far the biggest overhaul in data protection law in 20 years. Drafted by the European Commission, the aim of the new regulation is to give individuals more control over how their personal information used by the organisations that store it while standardising and simplifying the data protection rules across all 28 EU member states. The EU is hoping to strengthen data protection and privacy standards significantly and introduce tougher measures to enforce its requirements to build trust in a rapidly growing digital world.

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