{"id":609,"date":"2021-06-25T16:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hspgroupstg.wpenginepowered.com\/https-www-hsp-com-blog-2021-6-25-gdpr-explained-how-hsp-can-help-global-businesses-address-gdpr\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:16:44","slug":"gdpr-explained-for-global-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hsp.com\/gdpr-explained-for-global-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"GDPR explained for Global Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"609\" class=\"elementor elementor-609\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66a5d7f3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"66a5d7f3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a499f17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a499f17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/b3392987.smushcdn.com\/3392987\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/shutterstock_1059653168-1.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><h3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What is GDPR? <\/strong><\/span><\/h3><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">The General Data Protection Regulation 2016\/679 (GDPR) is a directive under European Union (EU) law addressing data protection and privacy in the EU and the wider European Economic Area (EEA) linking the EU member states with the three European Free Trade Association states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway), as well as the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA.\u00a0Regulators generally consider GDPR to be the toughest privacy and security law in the world.\u00a0The GDPR\u00a0 framework came into force on 25 May 2018, and it applies equally in all EU Member States. Since its departure from the EU, known broadly as Brexit, the UK incorporated a near-identical data protection regime, commonly referred to as the UK GDPR. For the purposes of this blog, we refer to both the EU and the UK regimes jointly as GDPR.<\/p><p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/hsp.com\/gdpr-explained-for-global-businesses\/#more-609\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading GDPR explained for Global Businesses\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is GDPR? 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