In less than 20 months, all companies handling personal data belonging to residents of the European Union will be expected to comply with a new set of privacy requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The May 2018 deadline for GDPR compliance may seem like a long way off, says John Crossno, product manager at enterprise technology vendor Compuware. Here, in no particular order, are the issues that US companies must be addressing right now to prepare for the new EU privacy requirements. The EU regulators can impose fines ranging from 2 percent to 4 percent of a companys global revenues for violations.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/6-ways-to-prepare-for-the-eu-s-gdpr