Another day, and another survey showing organizational uncertainty over the preparation of the General Regulation on Data Protection (GDPR), now in less than three months.
In this one, the company's data management company Solix conducted an online survey of more than 100 companies. While the sample was relatively small, the respondents were all computer professionals, which gives an overview of the situation of these departments:
- Two-thirds of respondents did not know whether individuals' personal data could be purged entirely of their systems.
- Twenty-two percent did not know that they had to comply with the GDPR if they were capturing and storing data from citizens of the European Union, if they were based in the United States. Outside the United States (Many experts say that they do it.)
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