GDPR

acronym

privacygovernance & risk

Stands for: General Data Protection Regulation

The European Union's comprehensive data protection law, in force since 2018.

The General Data Protection Regulation sets rules for handling personal data, consent, purpose limits, access and deletion rights, with real penalties, and applies to anyone processing EU residents' data. Brazil's LGPD is closely modeled on it.

Also known as: gdpr, lgpd, data protection regulation

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