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I am sure you will have noticed the bombardment in your inbox about the GDPR and what you have to do. I can't say I am an expert by any means but I believe we all need to know what it involves and if we need to change any of our business processes to comply.
Privacy and data protection may not matter to many of us here in New Zealand and many other countries outside of the EU. However this has changed effective from 25 May 2018 when new EU privacy laws came into place to coerce global organisations with links to the EU to comply with the General Data Protection Rules (GDPR).
These new rules will impact on any international organisation handling personal data of anyone residing in the European Union.
Most of our software services and other business tools could very well deal with this on our behalf but I believe it it important for us to be educated to ensure we are all complying.
For more information - this is a great article by the New Zealand Law Society which gives some steps in compliance. Click hereto read more.
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