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A new General Data Protection Regulation will protect the data of all EU citizens and will apply to all companies worldwide that process data of EU citizens. What are the most important provisions of this regulation? Reinier W.L. Russell Esq., managing partner of Russell Advocaten explains.
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Does your company collect or process personal data? Do you, for instance, register customer data? Or do you store addresses and telephone numbers of your personnel. If so, you will have to comply with the new European privacy rules!
In this newsletter Russell Advocaten will inform you, in short, about the most important changes to be expected in the European data protection regulations. More detailed information on this topic can be found in our previous newsletters.
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