In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect for firms doing business in the EU, but many companies aren't prepared for the strict regulation or fines for noncompliance (up to 20 million or 4% of global annual revenue). Steven Ross and Mark Donsky outline the capabilities your data environment needs to simplify compliance with GDPR and future regulations.

Many businesses will have to address EU GDPR as they deploy big data projects. This is an opportunity to rethink data security and deploy a flexible policy framework adapted to big data and regulations. Eric Tilenius explains how consistent visibility and control at a granular level across data domains can address both security and GDPR 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 global populace is asking for the IT industry to be held responsible for the safe-guarding of individual data. Steve Touw examines some of the data privacy regulations that have arisen and covers design strategies to protect personally identifiable data while still enabling analytics.

You may have heard that a piece of legislation called the GDPR is looming. Aurlie Pols draws a broad philosophical picture of the data ecosystem we are all a part of before honing into the right to data portability, hopefully empowering you to reclaim your data subject rights.