GDPR has been in effect since the 25th May 2018, replacing previous data protection legislation, with the aim of making all data collection, storage and use more transparent.

Global communications has changed significantly in the last 50 years, and with the growth of internet technologies and computing, it was inevitable that data privacy laws would need redoing - especially considering the legislation it replaces in the UK is now 20 years old (Data Protection Act 1998).

Apart from legislative reasons, there are real problems that GDPR aims to solve. It has become clear over the past 10 years that personal data is a valuable commodity (just look at Google and Facebook among other companies), where products and services are free at the point of use, supported by advertising and other processes that use the data collected.

Over the past few years there have also been a string of huge data breaches that have shown companies are hoovering up massive amounts of personal data, which has led to questions such as:

What processes do they have in place to keep the data secure?
Are they handling the data correctly?
Do they have permission to use the data in the ways they are using it?
Do they even need to hold the data in order to perform the function we asked them to perform?

GDPR will strengthen and unify data protection for individuals and will force all organisations processing personal data to abide by the new regulation.

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