GDPR - Your questions answered on Data Protection Day

Stuart Sumner
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Dr W Kuan Hon, director in the Privacy, Security & Information Law team at Fieldfisher, answers IT leaders’ enduring questions about GDPR around data erasure, subscriber data and Schrems II

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation was put into effect on May 25th 2018, and there are still many areas of confusion for firms, especially around which types of data to delet...

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