Executive Briefing: Data governance and evolving privacy legislationDaring to move beyond compliance

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is an ambitious legal project to reinstate the rights of "data subjects" within an increasingly lucrative data ecosystem. Aurlie Pols explores the legal obligations on companies and their respective interpretations and looks at how scale and integrity will be safeguarded in the data we increasingly base decisions upon in the long term.

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (and the revamp of the ePrivacy Directive/Regulation) is an ambitious legal project to reinstate the rights of “data subjects” within an increasingly lucrative, and hopefully beneficial, data ecosystem. With increased fines of up to 4% of global turnover or €20 million (whichever is higher), privacy risk has risen to board-level discussions. Aurélie Pols explores the legal obligations on companies and their respective interpretations and looks at how scale and integrity will be safeguarded in the data we increasingly base decisions upon in the long term.