GDPR at 10: Landmark data protections, increasing business burden (opens in new tab)

Ten years have passed since the came into force, and the results are mixed. While data protection has become more firmly established in European companies — and beyond — than ever before, the business world remains critical of the regulation due to increasing bureaucracy, legal uncertainty, and competitive disadvantages. From a data protection perspective, this is a success story. According to a 2018 Bitkom study, shortly before GDPR came into effect that year, only 7% of German companies had...