What you need to know about GDPR, the new EU privacy rules that have Silicon Valley scrambling to keep up

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• The EU is implementing major new data privacy regulation this week.
• It affects any company that processes EU citizens’ data, regardless of whether or not the company is based in the EU.
• The GDPR has sent Silicon Valley scrambling to keep up — here’s what you need to know.

New regulations in the European Union are making a major headache for Silicon Valley.

Tech companies are currently scrambling to get ready before May 25th, the date that will see the implementation of a major new piece of European data privacy legislation: GDPR.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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