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IBM's top brass lobbies US lawmakers to ignore GDPR in favour of 'public-private approach'

Nicholas Fearn

15 May 2018 • 2 min read

IBM urges US Congressmen to develop a less onerous 'third way' for data privacy

Computer giant IBM is sending more than 100 executives to urge US Senators and Representatives not to implement an American version of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which come...

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