Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

On May 25, 2018, the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force. Despite the Brexit negotiations, U.K. companies and even U.S. data centers with customers and customer data residing in the E.U. will have to comply. In fact, any company from any part of the world with customers located within the E.U. must adhere to GDPR. Interestingly, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) finds in its GDPR Preparedness Pulse Survey that GDPR compliance is a top data-protection priority for 92% of U.S. organizations in 2017.

Journalist Nick Ismail also reports in his article “What are US companies’ view on GDPR?” that “nearly all of the respondents considered compliance with Europe’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) a top priority on their data-privacy and security agenda in 2017—with over half of respondents saying it is ‘the’ top priority and 38% saying it is ‘among’ top priorities. The survey examines ‘why US companies are willing to spend $1 million or more on GDPR readiness plans…’”

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Published on 29th December 2017 by the Data Center Journal. By-lined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. Client: Trudy Darwin Consulting.  

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