Mornings With Mark

GDPR comes into effect on Friday, 25-May. What does it mean globally? Um...we're not really sure. The intention is to help push control of your data back to you. In order to accomplish that, GDPR contains two sets of penalties. The big one is negligence in protection the data (up to 4% of your global annual turnover) and the "smaller" is for failure to notify the regulators and affected people after a breach (up to 2%). Both of these fines are designed to shift the risk calculus in favour of privacy and security BY DESIGN. It's going to be a very interesting next few months...