To mark the third anniversary of the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), Paul Micallef Grimaud met with Information and
Data Protection Commissioner Ian Deguara to discuss the lessons
learned and the challenges that lie ahead.
The introduction of GDPR did not bring about a revolution as
some may have feared, Malta's data protection commissioner
believes.
"It was more of an evolution of the previous
framework," Ian Deguara said, as he however acknowledged that
the business community underwent a dramatic shift in the way data
protection and privacy rights were considered. As Deguara put it,
the introduction of the significant fines was an alarm bell that
could not go unheeded and gave no other option but for controllers
and processors to start taking data protection seriously.
