Friday 18 December 2015

“Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: EU Announces Sweeping New Data Protection Regulation”

Some four years after the European Commission first proposed enacting a new data protection regime to replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have announced a sweeping new data protection regulation.

The impact of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) cannot be overstated. It will affect not only companies established in the EU, but also any company in the world that processes personal data of EU residents, even if the company does not have an office there.

In our monthly Privacy & Cybersecurity Update at the end of this month, we will provide a detailed summary of the GDPR and what companies should start doing immediately. In this client alert, we set forth some of the key differences between the GDPR and the 1995 directive. For the full article click here 



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