GDPR summary
GDPR Summary What exactly is the GDPR all about? It's meaning for information subjects and organizations? What do you need to do? And why should you? Hopefully, this Article helps make sense of the regulation, and all the buzz words you may have been hearing . When the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect on the 25th of May 2018, it was the first major update to European data protection law for over 20 years. The regulation gives individuals known as data subjects much greater control over, how organizations process or control the processing of their personal data. It consists of information such as names, location data, email addresses, health records and photos to name a few. Essentially anything that could identify a living person. In the UK the GDPR is also supplemented by a new data protection act which fills in sections of the regulation that were left to individual member states to interpret and implement and which applies th...