ARCHIVED CONTENT
You are viewing ARCHIVED CONTENT released online between 1 April 2010 and 24 August 2018 or content that has been selectively archived and is no longer active. Content in this archive is NOT UPDATED, and links may not function.By Heather Buchta
Headlines have been popping up lately around Europe’s latest proposed rules to address data privacy. While the focus of the media seems to be mostly on how it’s bad news for big tech companies such as Google and Facebook—which will likely have even more complicated data privacy waters to navigate in Europe—there is likely a much broader impact as a result of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDRP) than we’re seeing in the news.
The GDRP, if it becomes law, would impact any company that gathers, processes or stores data from individuals in the European Union—that is, virtually every company that does business in the EU. It is meant to modernize data protection laws across the 28 EU countries and standardize the protection of personal data—particularly to address those ambiguities that have arisen out of the growth of social media companies and cloud computing services in the past decade or two since the original EU Data Protection Directive was issued in 1995.