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FINAL WORD
GDPR: What’s
the world
saying?
GDPR came into play recently and has
affected businesses worldwide. Countries
such as Australia, Africa and China have
reported on the recent implementation
which is setting new global standards for
regulating data. Marianne Calder, VP &
MD EMEA, Puppet, goes into more detail
about the effects of the General Data
Protection Regulation.
T
he countdown to the official implementation of the GDPR
is now over. It took a while to get the message of its
importance across but by now most, if not all, organisations
are creating policies to maintain compliance and avoid the fines
looming over those who buried their heads in the sand for too
long. Even more importantly, organisations are recognising that
individuals value the information that’s stored about them and
treating it with the respect it deserves.
While the GDPR impacts the members of the European Union
the most, one of the largest ‘myths’ around the build-up to its
implementation is that if you are not in the EU then it doesn’t
apply to you.
Luckily, most businesses across the globe have now realised that
there are a multitude of ways in which the GDPR becomes very
relevant to them – working with EU businesses, trading within the
EU, collecting data from EU citizens – and most importantly, if they
do not comply they will still face the same penalties. The BBC has
reported that US news sites, including the LA Times and The Chicago
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