The GDPR compliance deadline has now passed. Bells did not ring. No confetti dropped. No parades celebrated the day. People who don’t work in privacy might even be forgiven for having no idea that anything important happened on May 25. Yet, important things have indeed happened. As President and CEO of the IAPP, J. Trevor Hughes, CIPP, has had a first-hand view of the evolution of the privacy profession for the last 15 years. Without question, the EU GDPR has created a sea change like no other. In this Privacy Perspectives post, Hughes uses day one of the GDPR era to look back on the impact the GDPR has had before it has even come into force.
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