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New Privacy Rules for European Union Will Apply to Companies Worldwide

Publication date 5 October 2015

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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