May 2018, and GDPR has arrived

Robert Bond (robert.bond@bristows.com) is Partner & Notary Public at Bristows LLP in London, United Kingdom.

By the time you are reading this, May 25 may have come and gone, and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be in force. Probably, GDPR was not like Y2K; it was not a one-moment wonder; no mega fines were dished out on May 26; and it was not a revolution, merely an evolution!

However, GDPR is here, and it does apply to almost any business that processes personal data. It is extraterritorial, and it impacts both controllers and processors. Although privacy regulators will understand that businesses may not be 100% compliant right now, doing nothing is not an option, and so if you are not on a compliance journey, then you really must be, or you will suffer the consequences.

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