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General Data Protection Regular (GDPR). Practicalities and Preparation. Summary GDPR. What, Why and When? General Data Protection Regular (GDPR) is new legislation which impose new data security requirements for personal information within the European Union (EU) and is effective from 25 th May 2018. GDPR is primarily concerned with transparency of the intent and purpose of the data that an organisation wants to collect and why, demonstrating privacy is taken seriously by having the appropriate control measures in place, and not holding information where there isn’t a business need or longer than the purpose it was intended for. The impact of this new legislation is wider spread than the EU as it affects organisations globally that may operate within the EU and/or holds personal information about EU citizens without having an EU presence. GDPR applies to public and private sector organisations including not for profit, if you are an organisation that offers servic...

What does GDPR mean for users and customers? You might have found yourself surrounded with loads of articles talking about how important GDPR is and how it will change the way things are working today, but let’s be honest, it is a bunch of boring data that nobody reads, so let us make it easier and understandable for you. Why is GDPR happening? Not that long ago, we were more aware of how our data was being collected by companies, as we were the ones providing the data, filling up a form for example. Nowadays, due to the technologies, we are being tracked without us being conscious about it. It is like when we go to Amazon and it is already showing us the prices of paint brushes, because we have checked a video on Youtube on how to paint flowers. Companies know things about us that we didn’t tell them, so the GDPR is trying to make us aware of who has got our information and what are they intending to do with it. So, what is GDPR? GDPR stands for General Data Protect...

The data challenge. What it is and how to avoid it. Most companies, especially large ones, as well as governments departments, struggle with the amount of data they have accumulated over the years, either for themselves or for their customers. Most documents fall into two distinct categories, records and unstructured data. Typically, the challenges they are confronted with are as follows: ·          How much data is there across multiple platforms? ·          How many duplicates are there across multiple platforms? ·          Are duplicate, having the same revisions, have the same content (we should not assume that this is the case)? ·          Is the format readable (old format may not be read by today’s applications? (e.g. Microsoft Project Plan old files (over 10 years old files cannot be read with today’s...