General Data Protection Regulation

As of 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will reform data protection and privacy laws across Europe and beyond.

The new rules:

• Create new responsibilities for organisations that collect, use or store information about people.
• Give people new rights about how their data is collected, used and stored – including the right to have data corrected or deleted.

Six things you need to know...

• European regulators will have the power to serve fines of up to 4% of a business' annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year
• Where individuals demand to know what information is held on them, the data controllers will have less time to respond, and will not be allowed to charge