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The Top 10 Operational Impacts of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation

This 10-part series explores the major issues with which organizations will have to grapple as they bring themselves into compliance with the GDPR.


Published: December 2016


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Although many companies have already adopted privacy processes and procedures consistent with the Directive, the GDPR contains a number of new protections for EU data subjects and threatens significant fines and penalties for non-compliant data controllers and processors once it comes into force.

With new obligations on such matters as data subject consent, data anonymization, breach notification, cross-border data transfers, and appointment of data protection officers, to name a few, the GDPR requires companies handling EU citizens’ data to undertake major operational reform.

This 10-part series explores the major issues with which organizations will have to grapple as they bring themselves into compliance with the world’s most impactful privacy law.