By Daren Glenister (August 1, 2017, 10:07 AM EDT) -- The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation is officially less than a year away, and it's becoming increasingly more apparent that enterprises around the globe are underprepared. GDPR is the result of the collaborative effort by the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission to strengthen data protection for all citizens in the EU. The new regulation is intended to give individuals more transparency and control about how their personal data is being used by companies and applies to "data controllers" and "data processors." A controller makes available to the customer the services to process the personal data and the processor (as the name implies) does the processing. Any controller or processor operating in the EU or who controls or processes data of EU citizens is automatically subject to the GDPR, and the consequences that come along with noncompliance....
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