GDPR and what it means to you (Part 1)
Matt Mason
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Matt Mason
Information Security Practitioner | Mitigating risks and gluing everything else together to make IT and information secure
As you’ll probably know by now, the European General Directive known as the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) comes into force across on the 25th May 2018 by which time all EU member states must have implemented the regulation in their territory. As this is a regulation, it’s a Law that cannot be ignored or circumvented and certainly needs to be taken seriously no matter the size of the company or the sector in which it operates.
In this post we’ll discuss some of the new things that GDPR introduces which need to be addressed along with some gotchas that you might not know.