GDPR is a Year 2000-style cash cow, warns GDPR legal expert Dr Kuan Hon

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But contradictions and ambiguities in the GDPR might mean some claimed transgressions will have to be settled in court

Organisations should be wary of vendors claiming that their ‘solutions' will solve GDPR headaches, Dr Kuan Hon, a director of law firm Fieldfisher's privacy and security team, has warned. "It is...

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