The highly anticipated revisions to the EU legal regime for data
protection have now been adopted following the publication of the
official texts of the General Data Protection Regulation and Data
Protection Directive. On 04 May 2016, the official texts of the EU
Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council
on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing
of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and
repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the "General Data Protection
Regulation") and the EU Directive 2016/680 of the European
Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons
with regard to the processing of personal data by competent
authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation,
detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of
criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data, and
repealing Council Framework Decision 2008/977/JHA (the "Data
Protection Directive") were
