'GDPR' Tag

  • My personal GDPR

    July 6, 2018

    Following a talk I gave in Tokyo last month about European innovation, a number of Japanese corporations have been asking me about GDPR, and whether it applies to them. My answer has been consistently to encourage them to check with their own legal counsel, but that there is a good chance that they fall under […]

  • Consent is King: GDPR arrives

    May 16, 2018

    Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable on May 25th. Intended to ensure data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union, GDPR is essentially a law about consent. GDPR aims primarily to give control to citizens and residents over their personal data. GDPR applies to any company that processes personal data […]