What's the Geek Take on the GDPR? | Linux Today

What’s the Geek Take on the GDPR?

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DS
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Mar 13, 2018

The amount of geekery and hackage required to bring companies into compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (aka GDPR) must be huge. I say that for five reasons:

  1. The fines for violating the regulation’s rules are attention-forcing (up to 4% of global turnover in the prior fiscal year)….
DS

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