The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force 25 May 2018. This whitepaper discusses the potential impact to Professional Services firms, specific data governance areas they should consider and what they should do in preparation.
All firms will need to ask themselves the following:
This paper summarises several key requirements of the GDPR and maps them to proposed best practice and how a well-designed and robust Information Governance strategy can greatly improve a firm’s ability to comply with the GDPR and give clients confidence that their personal data would be offered a higher level of protection than typically exists.