What is GDPR and how will it affect you?

 So what is GDPR?

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will bring data protection legislation up-to-date with the way data is now used and stored by organisations and is an update on the current Data Protection Act 1998. It applies to any identifiable personal data that an organisation holds either on its employees, customers or other stakeholders. GDPR actually came into force in 2016 but will become law and apply in all EU member states from 25 May 2018. There will be heavy fines for non-compliance, of up to €20m, or 4% of global annual turnover for the preceding financial year.

Ask yourself whether your organisation has a plan of how it intends to tackle GDPR and how that could affect you? 

Whilst many businesses are now at least aware of GDPR, far less have a strategy in place to tackle either existing data that the organisation holds or an ongoing

EBC Group have practical solutions which will help you audit, manage and control your data and help to make your organisation GDPR compliant now and for the future.

for further details call me Deborah Whiles on 0121 585 4400