On May 25, 2018, the European Union will put into effect the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

I have a pleasure to recall that, on May 25, 2018, the European Union will put into effect GDPR, a continent-wide set of requirements designed to protect its citizens’ personal information ; any data “that can be used to directly or indirectly identify a person,” from a name to a post on social media.

Organizations within or outside of Europe, that process or hold such personal data of EU citizens and fail to comply with GDPR could potentially face extremely stiff financial penalties that will range from four percent of the organization’s annual global revenue to 20 million euros.