
What is GDPR
You may have heard this acronym many times over the past few months. GDPR is the General Date Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, enacted by the European Parliament and Council. It has the status of a binding law throughout the EU. The GDPR was adopted on April 27th, 2016 and will come into effect May 25th, 2018. The GDPR concerns how private data is collected, handled, stored, protected, conveyed, used and generally processed in every way. The GDPR replaces the EU directiv