May 25, 2018, was a milestone for privacy in Europe. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2016 became fully applicable. One of GDPR’s goals is a “consistent and high level of protection of natural persons and to remove the obstacles to flows of personal data within the Union; the level of protection of the rights and freedoms of natural persons with regard to the processing of such data should be equivalent in all Member States” (Recital 10 of the GDPR).
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