GDPR: Are you prepared?
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This year has seen many changes to the middle east, from a rise in oil prices to the recent implementation of VAT. As Middle Eastern businesses becomes more globalized they must also be aware of the foreign laws and regulations. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation that is designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens’ data privacy and to reshape the way organizations approach data privacy. The GDPR replaces the current Data Protection Directive 95/46/ec that was created on 24th October 1995 to control data processing. Many of the statutes mentioned in GDPR can be found in the current legislation, but GDPR being more detailed and precise, takes into account the challenges within the rapidly evolving digital world that give rise to privacy risks for data subjects.