There’s less than a month to go before Europe adopts the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a long-planned overhaul of how businesses collect and process data. The current regulations go back more than 20 years and to a pre-Facebook era when the internet’s potential was still being explored, so the new set of data protection rules was overdue.
As Risk & Insurance® reported last year, the impact of the GDPR extends beyond the European Union. Once it takes effect on May 25 it will affect not only companies across the EU’s member states, but any business or public sector…
