The European Commission has presented a Single Market Strategy to create a more simple, seamless and strong European market. As part of this Strategy, a simplification package has also been published and in addition to several other porposals, it also proposes simplifications to the GDPR. The…
How should small businesses apply the GDPR?
Nowadays it is almost inconceivable to carry out any economic activity without data processing. No matter how small the business may be, the processing of personal data, including customer data, partner data or employee data, is usually a necessary part of its operations. Therefore, compliance with…
5+1 misbeliefs regarding the application of the GDPR
The preparations for the application of the GDPR have come to its final phase, since the Regulation is directly applicable in all EU Member States from May 25. Despite the fact that the Regulation will soon become part of the daily practice, there are still many misunderstandings and myths…
SMEs and the GDPR
An interesting survey was published by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner on the Irish SMEs' readiness for the application of the EU’S new general data protection regulation (GDPR). If we want to summarize the findings of the survey briefly: the situation is quite depressing! One year before the…