Have you noticed all these privacy policy updates in your mailbox lately? Of course you have! That’s because today – May 25, 2018 – is the official day when the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation – goes into effect. In Europe, but not only.
Starting now, every single organization around the world making business with EU citizens has to comply with GDPR, a new set of regulations that places new restrictions on how companies handle their customers’ personal data.
So yeah. If you run a business based in the US that has customers in Europe, you should care big time. Because you’ll still need to comply with the new regulations.
To know more about the impact these new regulations could have on your business, read this great article on Mashable.