What changes GDPR will bring?

While some tend to portray new European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) as menacing Apocalypse coming from nowhere, fact is that GDPR is an “upgrade” of existing EU data protection laws. EU Data Protection Directive ( Directive 95/46/EC ) was adopted already in 1995.

GDPR keeps the basic principles of Data Protection Directive and ads new “layer” to it, aiming to unify data protection in all EU countries and bring more rights and control over data use back to individuals. But let’s look what exactly are the changes GDPR brings us.

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