15 Things You Need to Know about GDPR

There are many businesses selling their services to help you with the compliance side of GDPR, and as part of their marketing they're producing a fair bit of content about what GDPR.

Now we're not necessarily encouraging you to pay for their services, but it would be impolite not to make use of the free stuff they're putting out there.

This article from eUKHost highlights 15 points that you probably need to be aware of:
1. The right of access
2. The right to be forgotten
3. The right to data portability
4. The right to be informed about data breaches
5. The right to data correction
6. Identifying data
7. Web data
8. Demographic information
9. Health, genetic and biometric data
10. Political affiliations
11. Data protection by design
12. Creating a Data Protection Officer role
13. GDPR extends beyond the EU
14. GDPR will continue after Brexit
15. Big fines for non-compliance

Read the full "15 Things You Need to Know about GDPR" article here.

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