New Data Protection Regulations To Reach U.S. Companies

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Companies that handle EU citizens' data must be prepared to comply with a sweeping set of data security regulations that go into effect on May 25, 2018.
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Richard Reiter (Partner-White Plains) and Christopher Seusing (Associate-White Plains) are co-authors of "New Data Protection Regulations to Reach U.S. Companies," which appeared in the June 30, 2017, issue of the (Association of Corporate Counsel) ACC Docket. The article provides insight on the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) set to go into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR will significantly burden any company that handles or processes personal data of EU residents. According to the article, "Never before has a privacy regulation had the potential to reach companies anywhere on the globe on such an immense scale."

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Originally published by (Association of Corporate Counsel) ACC Docket

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