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Privacy and Innovation Combined in Information Governance

Everteam

European companies who have been more prudent in their use of personal data (though at the cost of innovation) have now seen their efforts rewarded in the form of increased levels of customer trust and regulatory compliance. This long-standing tradition of privacy protection is evident in their most recent regulation, GDPR.

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European Data Privacy Day Expert Panel Provides 30-Year Retrospective on UK Data Protection

Hunton Privacy

In setting up the registration system for data users, his office focused on major UK data controllers. The system required controllers to complete lengthy questionnaires, reflecting the fact that, at that time, data processing took place on a handful of large mainframe computers. She served until December 2002.