Happy Fifth Birthday GDPR!

By Robin Campbell-Burt, CEO at Code Red

On Thursday 25^th May, it’s the fifth anniversary of GDPR, and it’s safe to say the EU regulation has changed the world. Companies storing the personal data of EU citizens now must have a framework to both ethically and securely store and manage the information held on file.

Since its implementation in 2018, countries around the world have adopted their own version. In 2018, the State of California implemented the Californian Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and even after leaving the EU, the UK adopted the Data Protection Act.

Data privacy is on the mind of every organisation around the world, and the challenges of GDPR compliance are still just as present today as they were five years ago. So, with that mind, ahead of the fifth anniversary of GDPR...