Many UK businesses cancelled GDPR preparations due to Brexit

Here's a facepalm moment for you this morning -- a quarter of UK businesses stopped preparing for the GDPR thinking the regulation won't apply once the UK leaves the EU. The GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, has been ratified by the UK and will come into force on May 2018 -- which will almost certainly be before the UK leaves the EU. Even if the UK leaves before, however, the GDPR will still apply for all companies wanting to do business with the EU. Crown Records Management has polled IT decision makers in the UK, and came to results which… [Continue Reading]