Five Years of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018

For many outside the data privacy and IT governance, risk management and compliance sectors, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) seemed to appear five years ago as if from nowhere. It had barely made the news before May 2018, but in the weeks running up to its effective date of 25 May 2018 it gained the sort of media coverage and popular interest that most aspirant celebrities can only yearn for. (Indeed, the European Commission proudly shared in a since-deleted infographic that ‘GDPR’ was googled more often than Beyoncé or Kim Kardashian.) The Regulation’s time in the media spotlight didn’t

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May 18, 2023
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