UK businesses less prepared for GDPR than European counterparts

The new GDPR legislation is now just a year away from coming in to force, but new research claims that British businesses are not nearly as prepared as expected. A study by Blancco Technology Group reveals that the UK is significantly less prepared than its European counterparts, with companies lagging behind the rest of the continent. The study finds that the UK is four times more likely to allocate no budget to GDPR compliance than businesses in the US, France and Spain. British businesses are also the least likely to have performed a data protection gap analysis in the past 12 months --… [Continue Reading]