Understanding GDPR

GDPR is an acronym that stands for General Data Protection Regulation. These are regulations that are developed and overseen by the European Union. These are wide-reaching regulations that seek to address many aspects of data management by firms dealing with data obtained from EU citizens. These regulations target users' knowledge of the data being collected, the processes of collecting the data, and the rules for reporting data breaches in case they occur. GDPR aims to tighten business processes in the wake of the increasing supply of user information to the cloud and other online services. It is a privacy and security policy that enumerates obligations that businesses ought to follow and affects businesses across the globe, so long as they conduct business that affects citizens of the EU. So far, GDPR is the toughest set of laws in matters of security and privacy. They enumerate a list of regulations that touch on many aspects of global business processes...