Australia is filled with EU citizens; will you meet your GDPR obligations to them? | CSO

Posted by Steven Kirby | Aug 28, 2017 | Australia, Compliance, CSO from IDG, Digital Rights, GDRP, Law & Legal, Privacy | 0 |

Although just 1 in 3 Australian companies believe they need to be compliant with forthcoming European Union privacy regulations, the remainder are likely to find themselves commercially disadvantaged if they don’t do the same, a senior European cloud-industry executive has warned.

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Australia is filled with EU citizens; will you meet your GDPR obligations to them? | CSO