EU privacy rules: Whats next for businesses and regulators as GDPR looms?
Ana Rita Rego, Managing Editor in London, and Vesela Gladicheva, Senior Technology Correspondent, discuss the EU's new sweeping data privacy rules. The General Data Protection Regulation will apply from May 25 and companies, governments and regulators are scrambling to get ready for the law. The GDPR will boost citizens' rights and impose strict new obligations on any organization handling Europeans' personal information. There is a lot at stake in getting compliance right, not least because of regulators' ability to impose hefty fines.