GDPR - compliance exercise or protection marketing opportunity?

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There are around 200 days and counting until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDOR) comes into force on 25th May 2018, writes Nick Baker.

GDPR is a hot topic and is currently exercising the minds and resourcing of IT and compliance teams throughout the UK. There's no doubt the new regulations are creating a lot of work to ensure full compliance is achieved and some nasty looking fines avoided. For some companies, GDPR will be relatively straightforward as their data management practices are already of the highest standards. For other companies, particularly smaller businesses, GDPR is a potential minefield, as it applies to B2B as well as B2C customer data. There's plenty of help available, with numerous software ...

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