Tag: Data protection

1. Introduction Achieving GDPR compliance for businesses is not an administrative fashion but a legal obligation with fines of up to 20 million euros or 4% of global annual turnover, and a commercial requirement increasingly demanded by customers and suppliers. Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation applies directly across the European Union, and in the United Kingdom it is retained under the UK GDPR alongside the Data Protection Act 2018. However, most SMEs still treat this issue as a pending paperwork task: they do not know which obligations affect them, what deadlines they face or what economic risk they …