This month on CMS-Connected, Scott Liewehr and Tyler Pyburn discuss the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Digital Clarity Group Co-founder and Principal Analyst Tim Walters has written and spoken extensively on GDPR in recent months. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) places significant new and expanded restrictions on the collection, use, storage, sharing, and destruction of EU residents’ personal data.

Organizations caught violating this gravitational shift in the ownership of personal data can face fines as high as 4% of global revenue. For an organization the size of Google or Walmart, we’re talking about billions of dollars.

I think it’s really scary right now, that everyone’s not talking about this more. This should be on everyone’s mind. -Scott Liewehr

This doesn’t only impact companies based in the EU. In fact, any global company that stores the data of residents of the EU must be in compliance by May of 2018. Digital Clarity Group now offers a workshop for organizations interested in learning more about the GDPR and how it impacts their organization.

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