HERE COME THE DATA REGULATIONS

摘要

In late 2017, an article of mine appeared in Resource Recycling sister publication E-Scrap News describing the anticipated global impact of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In the article, I predicted the GDPR, which went into effect last year, would have repercussions on companies and organizations far beyond Europe, since GDPR was written to have its protections extended to EU citizens regardless of where they lived or traveled. As I noted then, entities that run afoul of the regulation can lose access to the European market, as well as risk fines of up to 4 percent of their annual revenues. I also explained that the GDPR would ripple through the world of electronics recycling. Because organizations around the world were going to be forced to comply with the new data protection requirements, the recycling and data-management firms on which they rely would be forced to comply as well.