While the General Data Protection Regulation has faced criticism from the Federal Ministry of Justice and from Federal Data Protection Commissioners, there have been compromises within its draft implementation law designed to assuage concerns, according to a report from The Privacy Benchmark. The GDPR will still require companies to appoint an in-house data protection officer when having at least 10 individuals tasked with processing personal data, staying in line with German law. The draft implementation law also keeps the same standards for employee data protection and will have fines consistent with other laws within Germany.
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