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European Companies Need to Comply

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What is the GDPR?

GDPR is an acronym for General Data Protection Regulation. In the simplest terms, the regulation is intended to give individuals in the EU canada goose clearance sale more control of how their personal data is used by businesses and individuals. When it goes into effect, it will apply to the collection, processing, use of, retention and deletion of personal data by uk canada goose outlet companies. It will replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

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Why comply with GDPR even if your company is in the United States or another non EU Country?

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International jurisdiction is a very complicated thing. However, at base, jurisdictional law requires that the jurisdiction in which the aggrieved party is located or in which the offending act happened, and the offending party, have some connection. branches), you can bet that Germany is going to have an interest in going after Joe.

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The above doesn’t completely answer the question “How are they going to enforce it?”, but it does show that they have both the law, and the intentions, to do so and, as we tell our clients, our job is to make sure that you don’t end up Canada Goose Jackets as a test case. Being a test case is way more expensive, time consuming, and stress inducing, than just biting the bullet and getting GDPR compliant.

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“But Anne,” you ask, “GDPR says ‘any form of automated processing’, so it’s ok if we just ask them or somehow Canada Goose Online https://www.getcanadagooseoutlet.com manually get that information, right?”

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Canada Goose Jackets Second, as we point out in our article on how and why to comply with GDPR, GDPR hides the ball about exactly what is meant by “in the Union” and when you might get in trouble for using data acquired from someone that you canada goose thought wasn’t in the EU during the time of acquisition. Canada Goose Jackets

It also doesn’t clarify whether “in the Union” means specifically “sitting at a location within the EU boundaries at the time of data acquisition” or also means anchored in Canada Goose Parka the Union (the EU), such as where an email canada goose clearance address or telephone number is anchored. For example, I live in Colorado, but my telephone number, which begins with 408, is anchored in California. If California had a law similar to GDPR, that could be enough of a hook for California to prosecute a company who has my personal data, including that California anchored telephone number, even if that company is not itself in California.

Also, GDPR has provisions providing for what you must do in the event of a data breach, and the way it is written, it covers any and all personal data, even that which you collected prior to GDPR canadian goose jacket going into effect, if that data is the personal data of someone “in the Union”.

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How to Comply with GDPR

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